Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:59:02 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: "Dangerously dedicated" yet again (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c) Message-ID: <200112100559.fBA5x2x43757@apollo.backplane.com> References: <44735.1007899299@verdi.nethelp.no> <XFMail.20011209225258.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20011210105025.H83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C142200.1746FFA2@mindspring.com> <20011210143936.F63585@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C144836.5217C971@mindspring.com>
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On google search for:
deskstar 75gxp class action
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22412.html
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,67608,00.asp
etc... So apparently my warning about these drives in 'man tuning' is
still appropriate :-)
-Matt
:> > IBM DTLA drives are known to rotate fast enough near the spindle
:> > that the sustained write speed exceeds the ability of the controller
:> > electronics to keep up, and results in crap being written to disk.
:>
:> What about the cache?
:
:Good point. The cache is known to not actually flush to disk when
:ordered to do so. See the EXT3FS article on www.ibm.com/developerworks
:for more details.
:
:> > This is not often a problem with windows, the FS of shich fills
:> > sectors in towards the spindle, so you only hit the problem when you
:> > near the "disk full" state.
:>
:> This sounds very unlikely.
:
:I know, doesn't it? Good thing Tom's Hardware is so thorough, or we
:might never have known this, with everyone on the verge of discovering
:it simply dismissing it as "very unlikely". 8^).
:...
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