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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > I seriously doubt that -current is killing your hard drives.
> > > Some things you just can't do from software, even if you wanted
> > > to.
> >
> > That's not true.
> >
> > when we enabled tagged queueing on teh wide busses we
> > effectively increased teh work the drive is doing, and we probably
> > raised the temperature by another 2 or 3 degrees.
> 
> So we talk to the drives a little faster - you're saying that even
> while remaining within spec, simply making the drives work to
> performance levels is enough to expect failure?  Hmmmm.  An
> interesting point of view.
> 
no, but it could push it over the edge if cooling is not sufficient..

julian

>                                         Jordan