Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:30:28 +0100 | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted? |
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El Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:25 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu escribió:
> The $64 question is, of course: What exactly should the operating system > *do* if it detects one of these drives? Prohibit it from bricking later > by essentially bricking it *now*? What if the drive already has a lot of > production data on it?
Yeah, that's why I asked. Now that I think about it, it should probably be the HAL people who should add one of those desktop "bubbles" warning the users about the possible failure (they already do it for faulty batteries) -- 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/
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