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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: wd0: interrupt timeout (status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam>) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:52:06 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:01:16 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <199908101952.PAA00866@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes:
><<On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:38:02 -0700 (PDT), Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> said:
>
>> You've got to be kidding.  That makes them totally useless for server
>> operation -- at some random time every week, down goes your server for a
>> few minutes. :(
>
>Ye gets what ye pays for.... if you want a reliable server, use SCSI.

Fair to say in this case, IBM goes out of their way to explain that
*DESK*star is NOT for servers.

For a server you want ULTRAstar disks.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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