Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:05:07 +0200 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error Message-ID: <20010530220507.L15580@messiah.megadeb.org> In-Reply-To: <3B153FBC.ED53FB6C@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400 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>
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > Munish Chopra wrote: > > I just finished reading this: > > > > http://www.storagereview.com/jive/sr/thread.jsp?forum=1&thread=13134 > > > > ...it's a message board at a pretty decent storage site. There aren't > > too many great posts, but what seems to be pretty consistent is that the > > problems arise (in part) because Windows 98 and ME shut down too fast - > > so I'm assuming this has to do with the "Yes I wrote the data (ha ha I'm > > lying)" 'feature' that has been discussed lately. A few people have just > > had it show up when writing to the disk... > > 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... -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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