From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
dalecki@evision-ventures.com,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suspend support for IDE
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:23:44 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203100823.JAA14203@cave.bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16joxm-0002g6-00@the-village.bc.nu> from Alan Cox at "Mar 9, 2002 10:05:14 pm"
Alan Cox wrote:
> Also there is the some fun about buggy drives and power up happenings. On no
> account can you issue any command that might touch the platter unless you
> know the drive is at full running speed when spinning up certain old drives
> because the firmware in some cases forgets to check the drive is at speed
> and you physically destroy the disk over time. Thankfully thats old old
> drives (540Mb quantum if I remember rightly)
That could be 1.6G or 2.5G WD drives. AC31600, AC32500.
Roger.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-10 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-08 18:02 Suspend support for IDE Pavel Machek
2002-03-08 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 18:33 ` benh
2002-03-09 21:03 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-09 22:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-10 0:52 ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-03-11 0:10 ` Reid Hekman
2002-03-11 5:47 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-03-10 8:23 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
2002-03-10 22:16 ` Derek J Witt
2002-03-10 22:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-11 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-09 22:08 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-09 13:02 ` Martin Dalecki
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203101801150.30628-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-03-11 0:44 ` Derek J Witt
2002-03-11 1:01 ` Mark Hahn
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