From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 24 15: 2:48 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E483137B405 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 79096 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Oct 2001 22:02:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Oct 2001 22:02:42 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:02:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Brooks Davis Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c In-Reply-To: <20011024125046.A29763@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: <20011024170045.S78388-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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