On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:41 -0800, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 13:20, MJang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know a number of people here run RHEL (or rebuilds such as CentOS) on > > their systems -- wanted to share a problem I've apparently had on my > > T410 / 500G hard drive since I installed RHEL 6. I reported it at > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667485 > > > > Bottom line, I think a default RHEL 6 setting caused my hard drive to > > fail in less than 2 months > > Well, it didn't override the defaults set by the drive manufacturer, > which in turn led to that: at best, a failure to act on a stupid > default by RH, rather than something they actively did. > > The real blame sits with the hard disk or laptop BIOS vendor, and I > mention this because it is highly likely that you will encounter the > same situation regardless of which distribution you are using.
Fair enough. However, as I documented in the bug report, Ubuntu dealt with this issue a couple of years ago, I think using hdparm -B 200 to override such default settings. Thus the question -- should Red Hat have dealt with this too, or is it appropriate for them to be more "hands off" (than Ubuntu) w/r/t relatively common hardware components. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
