Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:02:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c Message-ID: <20011024170045.S78388-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20011024125046.A29763@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > > I suspect that if the 75GXPs had been warranty replaced by 60GXPs, nobody > > would've gotten upset and noticed... they must have some fundamental > > problem with their larger capacities, given that the other companies have > > released 100GB and they haven't. > > From what I've heard from integrators the issue is in the electronics > not the physical media. > > -- Brooks Electronics as in loose wires and bad electromagnets, or electronics as in badly written firmware? I ask because WD seems to be having no (fewer) problems with their large capacity drives, and I had the understanding that they license a lot of technology from IBM. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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