Re: [PATCH] Re: IDE error on 2.4.17

Alan Cox
2002-02-27T14:45:17Z

> > Any chance it's one of those fast IBM 30 or 45 gig drives? They seem to
> > be dying pretty fast ...
>
> I expect a patch like this would help avoid these sort of
> questions...

This is the wrong approach. That information is available properly if and
when the vendors install the smart utilities