Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think itmeans."

[Mark Lord]

Mark Lord wrote:
> The original Deathstar ailment had nothing to do with firmware or cooling.
> But rather, a bad batch of chips that IBM had the misfortune to use a 
> lot of.
>
> The chips would grow tiny internal whiskers over a period of 2+ years,
> and eventually short circuit themselves.
...

Oddly enough, the Wikipedia entry doesn't include this information,
but does talk about other failure modes of the 75GXP series.

Cheers
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