Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:00:49 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means." |
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Mark Lord wrote: > > The original Deathstar ailment had nothing to do with firmware or cooling. > But rather, a bad batch of chips that IBM had the misfortune to use a > lot of. > > The chips would grow tiny internal whiskers over a period of 2+ years, > and eventually short circuit themselves. ...
Oddly enough, the Wikipedia entry doesn't include this information, but does talk about other failure modes of the 75GXP series.
Cheers
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