Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:58:41 -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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Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:33:29AM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> writes: >> >>> In my experience what they needed was proper cooling. I have a 3ware >>> RAID-5 array of 4 120 GB DeskStar drives still working. >> I think the largest "deathstars" (75GXP?) were 75 GB. > > AFAIK there were basically two series of deathstars. The original > DTLA<something> and the more recent IC35<something>. The IC35 series > were bigger (120GB is the most common size I've seen for those). > Proper cooling and firmware upgrade usually fixed the deathstarness on > both series. I still have some of both, not in active use for a year or > two but still working. As a strange coincidence I was just pulling out > some old data from them yesterday. ..
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.
My last one died here just a few weeks ago, after sitting on the shelf for nearly all of it's life. Never more than perhaps 40 power-on hours total, and never enough to get very warm.
Cheers
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