Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:36:42 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error Message-ID: <3B1559DA.AF194EAC@mitre.org> References: <20010528193755.I67783-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20010530064604.1DBFF380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010530110828.L78320@numachi.com> <20010530195416.K15580@messiah.megadeb.org> <3B153FBC.ED53FB6C@mitre.org> <20010530220507.L15580@messiah.megadeb.org>
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Munish Chopra wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > > One interesting theory on there was that the drives were overheating and > > somehow damanging themselves. Although this doesn't seem too likely, > > I wonder if it isn't a catalyst. > > > > Truthfully, that board was all over the place, and I'm not sure I trust > > any of the posts on there any farther than I could throw them. > > Yeah it was quite Slashdottish. I just summed up the few things that > were confirmed by several people. Since reading that, I saw the > overheating theory on aother board too. I've been happy with my IBM > drives so far, but if a drive fails just because it gets a little bit > warm, I'll be looking other places. I must admit, something or the other > stinks of brain-damaged engineering... Heh, I have a Western Digital Caviar drive (WDC AC32500H) that will lock up if it gets too hot. Worse, it's sitting right next to an IBM DDYS-T36950N drive which gets really d@mn hot if I don't keep airflow running over it at all times, but doesn't seem to have the shutdown problem the Caviar has. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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