On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:52:03 lee wrote: > >But I'm wondering how many people have this problem. There are > >probably lots of people with SATA disks, and if most of them had this > >problem, it might have already heen solved. If lots of people have > >SATA disks but don't have this problem, I might get away with getting > >new disks. But maybe lots of people have it and just live with it? > > Two WD Raptors connected via SATA to my Tyan motherboard in my desktop since > 2005. No drops. > > A varying number of Hitachi drives (both 500G and 1000G) connected via SATA > to > my Areca PCI-X controller. No drops.
Hm, so I might just have bad luck with (one of) these disks. > If you can find enough people with the same problems and co-ordinate, you > might be able to reduce the amount of effort each of you put forward. If > time is what it takes to reproduce, that's fine -- just figure out what a > good upper bound is. Is 1 day long enough without drops long enough to say > the kernel is good? 7 days? 30 days? I'd say 1/2 year in this case. -- "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]