Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks? | Date | 24 Nov 2001 14:28:00 -0800 |
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Followup to: <tgy9kwf02c.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> By author: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > However, if it's really true that DTLA drives and their successor > > corrupt blocks (generate bad blocks) on power loss during block writes, > > these drives are crap. > > They do, even IBM admits that (on > > http://www.cooling-solutions.de/dtla-faq > > you find a quote from IBM confirming this). IBM says it's okay, you > have to expect this to happen. So much for their expertise in making > hard disks. This makes me feel rather dizzy (lots of IBM drives in > use). >
No sh*t. I have always been favouring IBM drives, and I had a RAID system with these drives bought. It will be a LONG time before I buy another IBM drive, that's for sure. I can't believe they don't even have the decency of saying "we fucked".
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