From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diego Calleja Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:30:28 +0100 Message-ID: <20090120163028.63efeb1a@diego-desktop> References: <20090120002923.065f24ca@diego-desktop> <85346.1232422345@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <85346.1232422345@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org El Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:25 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu escribi=C3=B3= : > The $64 question is, of course: What exactly should the operating sys= tem > *do* if it detects one of these drives? Prohibit it from bricking la= ter > by essentially bricking it *now*? What if the drive already has a l= ot 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 th= e users about the possible failure (they already do it for faulty batteri= es)