From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 30 13: 3:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from messiah.megadeb.org (cpe.atm0-0-0-218131.arcnxx5.customer.tele.dk [62.242.79.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D4437B424 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:03:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chopra@runbox.com) Received: (from chopra@localhost) by messiah.megadeb.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4UK58O37581 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 May 2001 22:05:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from chopra) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:05:07 +0200 From: Munish Chopra To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error Message-ID: <20010530220507.L15580@messiah.megadeb.org> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@freebsd.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B153FBC.ED53FB6C@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > Munish Chopra wrote: > > I just finished reading this: > > > > http://www.storagereview.com/jive/sr/thread.jsp?forum=1&thread=13134 > > > > ...it's a message board at a pretty decent storage site. There aren't > > too many great posts, but what seems to be pretty consistent is that the > > problems arise (in part) because Windows 98 and ME shut down too fast - > > so I'm assuming this has to do with the "Yes I wrote the data (ha ha I'm > > lying)" 'feature' that has been discussed lately. A few people have just > > had it show up when writing to the disk... > > 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... -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message