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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: Port Multiplier access with Sil 3124
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:16:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4993A2A0.7020606@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49923356.6050405@kernel.org>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Linda Walsh wrote:
>>     I also had a triple Seagate drive failure within 2 months,
>> two of them within a week -- and I did lose *backups* of my primary
>> drives!
> 
> My test disks go through a lot of unusual workloads which often
> include frequent emergency head unloads with immediately following
> spin up and Seagate has been the sturdiest for quite some time now.
> It's sad to hear that they're degressing.  :-(

It seems like most of the problems have been firmware and not 
mechanical, but a coworker did have a Seagate 7200.11 disk recently 
start getting SMART errors, which doesn't seem like any of the usual 
firmware symptoms that have been reported.

Went with a WD Caviar Black for a recent drive purchase instead.. 
hopefully Seagate will get their act together for the next models.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-08 20:38 Port Multiplier access with Sil 3124 Linda Walsh
2009-02-09  9:26 ` Grant Grundler
2009-02-09 22:01   ` Linda Walsh
2009-02-09 14:35 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-02-09 20:09   ` Mark Lord
2009-02-09 22:22   ` Linda Walsh
2009-02-09 23:01     ` Greg Freemyer
2009-02-10  0:15       ` Jeff Garzik
2009-02-10  1:07         ` Linda Walsh
2009-02-10  3:48           ` Jeff Garzik
2009-02-11  2:09           ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-12  4:16             ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-02-10  3:25         ` Greg Freemyer
2009-02-11  2:12 ` Tejun Heo

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