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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel regression on nforce2 motherboard
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e819f2dedb669569b039c603e40bcaac@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30909121025k1c584926ta2911751ad313f01@mail.gmail.com>

>  9atom boots fine so I think I owe Erik another beer :)
>
>  Just for completeness, the system is an oldish amd - nforce2
> motherboard, SIL3112 SATA with a couple of 300g ST3300831AS disks.

take a look on segate's site for a firmware update for those drives.
i'm not saying that's your problem, but older AS drives (consumer)
have had firmware problems.

i'll just beat a dead horse here and repeat that it is very important
to choose a high-quality disk drive, and fewer platters leads to better
reliability.  (fewer heads to crash.)  here are the spec sheet numbers
i think are important
unrecoverable read errors	< 1 in 1e15
mtbf			> 750000 hrs	(1% afr)
duty cycle		100%
unload cycles		> 200000

mostly enterprise drives fit this definition.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-12 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-12 17:25 sqweek
2009-09-12 18:49 ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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