Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:22:13 +0100 | From | "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means." |
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote: > "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com> writes: > > > > [ Actually, I'm not surprised as we are getting patches/reports for much > > older/buggier hardware... After all we are doing Linux not some other > > OS whose every release obsoletes the old hardware. ;-) ] > > It isn't just about old/buggy hardware (personally I'm using much > older items). The DTLA disks had "rather" short MTBF, with something > like 30% returns in the first year after purchase, according to a > friendly distributor. Despite firmware upgrades, they were unfixable.
Ah, you meant that it was a DeathStar drive... well, a lucky survivor...
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