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Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel



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.


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