Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:12:20 +0200 (CEST) | From | Marco Colombo <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Howl of soul... |
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> > > there's nothing wrong with the chipset/controller; isn't this thread > > > about the well-known DTLA problem? if so, then what mode you use > > > is completely irrelevant, since the physical media is degrading. > > > > i feel like the media isn`t downgrading because > > the badblocks _arent_ physical: low-level drive > > reformat doesnt show anything. > > A low-level format (using IBM DFT) is going to *silently* remap bad > parts of the disk. It's only going to complain once it's no longer > possible to remap the bad sectors. So, just because the low-level format > doesn't complain does not mean that there is no media degradation! > > Also, many people seem to be correlating it to heat, and possibly to > flaws in IBM's implementation of glass platters in these drives. For > example, see > http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl?/http://www.storagereview.com/jive/sr/thread.jsp?forum=1&thread=16057 > > -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com> > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Just to add something to the noise, I'm so happy with DTLA-307030's that I'm not even considering buying something different. As I see it, there's simply no competing product, full stop. Recently I've bought a 41Gb 60GXP, and I'm happy with that too. It is true that I usually stick with the same HW for a long while, so maybe I'm just being lucky.
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