Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Suspend support for IDE | Date | Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:23:44 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Also there is the some fun about buggy drives and power up happenings. On no > account can you issue any command that might touch the platter unless you > know the drive is at full running speed when spinning up certain old drives > because the firmware in some cases forgets to check the drive is at speed > and you physically destroy the disk over time. Thankfully thats old old > drives (540Mb quantum if I remember rightly)
That could be 1.6G or 2.5G WD drives. AC31600, AC32500.
Roger.
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