From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 29 23:46: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D94337B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 23:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4U6k4M18383 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 23:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBFF380E; Tue, 29 May 2001 23:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Matt Dillon , John Polstra , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error In-Reply-To: <20010528193755.I67783-100000@achilles.silby.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 23:46:04 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010530064604.1DBFF380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > Yah, I figured that out... I hadn't even considered it could happen wit h > > 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! :) Sounds like the DTLA series drives.. The biggest piles of junk I've seen!in quite a while. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message