Re: Western Digital hard drive and DMA

From: john slee (indigoid@higherplane.net)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 10:55:58 EST

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On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:08:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Old old (we are talking 340MB era here) WD had some DMA problems in a
> few cases. We know about it and blacklist such drives. I'm aware of a

shouldn't these drives be _way_ past their mtbf by now and into the "wow
its still working" stage. not that its an argument against
blacklisting... (far from it!)

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