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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:08:38 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        nirva@ishiboo.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current kills harddrives 
Message-ID:  <2790.840838118@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:12:42 PDT." <321E02AA.5656AEC7@whistle.com> 

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> > 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.

					Jordan


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