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From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means."
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:22:13 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com> writes:
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> > [ 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...