From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 23 23:51:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10018 for current-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA09998 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA15080; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:51:24 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA15709; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:51:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA08952; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:41:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608240641.IAA08952@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:41:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: nirva@ishiboo.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <321E543C.353C51DE@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Aug 23, 96 06:00:44 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > > 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. > > > no, but it could push it over the edge if cooling is not sufficient.. Btw., if i read the mail correctly, the drives are not going entirely dead. It's just that they decouple from the SCSI bus, so perhaps they are simply reacting to a detected overheating condition. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)