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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error
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On Mon, 28 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:

>     Yah, I figured that out... I hadn't even considered it could happen with
>     a brand new IBM drive!  Ah well... back to the
>     tried-and-true-but-run-slightly-hot seacrates.
>
> 						-Matt

Unfortunately, it sounds like you're not alone.  If you check out various
hardware message boards, there are people hopping mad about recent IBM
drives having a high failure rate. :|

But they support tagged queueing, so you can safely write cache!  :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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