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SubjectRe: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means."
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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