RE: Blockbusting news, results get worse

Mudama, Eric
2003-10-27T18:06:45Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samium Gromoff [mailto:deepfire@ibe.miee.ru]
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:08 AM
> To: Mudama, Eric
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: Blockbusting news, results get worse
>
>
> Eric Mudama wrote:
> > Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > > Eric,
> > >
> > > Item "3" in your list is not practical, because no drive
> > > maker allows the same drives that large oem's purchase to
> be placed in retail.
> > > There are obvious reasons, but your position stated for
> the average joe
> > > consumer is flawed.
> >
> > I don't believe your statement is correct that OEM drives
> and retail drives
> > always differ. They may have slight configuration differences, but
> > fundamentally I think they're the same drive with identical or
> > near-identical firmware.
>
> If there is somebody you should believe about such stuff,
> that would be Andre.
> (by the way he was a T13 committee member not so long ago)

That's nice. For $800/year, anyone can join who is interested, provided
they can attend the meetings. Anyone is free to join and ask questions on
the T13 mailing list.

http://www.t13.org

As to the "facts," I guess I choose to believe myself, since I'm one of the
guys writing firmware that decides drive behavior in many of these cases
that people bring up. Now, I've only been doing this for 3 years, so if
there was something done greater than 3 years ago, odds are I haven't heard
of it. I am only speaking from recent experience.

As to "believing" Andre, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he comes off as
awefully bitter... it's tough to read more than a few sentences of what he
writes. He obviously "knows" stuff, but wants to make people jump through
hoops to learn what he knows.

> And, hey, i would have been rather surprised if you have
> answered otherwise, given your email address...

Of course, you can dismiss everything I'm saying if you like. However, I'd
like to think I've been helpful to someone. Disk drives don't work quite
the way some people think, so I like to try to clear up these misconceptions
thinking it will eventually help produce better linux code that works better
with the IDE drives I can afford.

--eric