From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263135AbTJ0OCz (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:02:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263131AbTJ0OCy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:02:54 -0500 Received: from relay1.miee.ru ([213.171.53.133]:48400 "EHLO gulipin.miee.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263135AbTJ0OCr (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:02:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:07:30 +0300 Message-ID: <87ptgiu8vh.wl@drakkar.ibe.miee.ru> From: Samium Gromoff To: eric_mudama@maxtor.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Blockbusting news, results get worse User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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) And, hey, i would have been rather surprised if you have answered otherwise, given your email address... cheers, Samium Gromoff