From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 30 13:37: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947E137B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22780; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:36:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28570; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:36:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 6767899; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:36:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1559DA.AF194EAC@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:36:42 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Munish Chopra Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error 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> <20010530220507.L15580@messiah.megadeb.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Munish Chopra wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > > 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... Heh, I have a Western Digital Caviar drive (WDC AC32500H) that will lock up if it gets too hot. Worse, it's sitting right next to an IBM DDYS-T36950N drive which gets really d@mn hot if I don't keep airflow running over it at all times, but doesn't seem to have the shutdown problem the Caviar has. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message