From: "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" <catab@embedromix.ro>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Seagate disk freeze for 30 seconds then comes back (RecovComm 10B8B)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:15:40 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902021714430.5093@mail.embedromix.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090130212115.GB26062@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:07:48PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Would you expect that firmware would be shared between old tech laptop
>> drives and desktop/server drives? Particularly since the laptop drive was
>> built before any of the 7200.11 drives?
>>
>> I think this is a very unlikely part of the problem. Certainly the drive
>> might be dying or other hardware issue.
>
> It does seem unlikely, although if it is a common design flaw in their
> firmware, it could have been carried over from older drives and just not
> be as noticeable on the older drives with smaller caches and less drive
> space.
>
> Now if the drive is really old, then year it might simply be failing.
No, the driver is pretty new (less than 1 year old) and the use is very
light.
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
--
Catalin(ux) M. BOIE
http://kernel.embedromix.ro/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-02 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-28 9:30 Catalin(ux) M. BOIE
2009-01-28 15:31 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-01-30 0:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-30 21:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-02-02 15:15 ` Catalin(ux) M. BOIE [this message]
2009-01-29 0:52 ` Robert Hancock
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