Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:18:09 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | RE: Blockbusting news, results get worse |
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Eric,
You are being helpful and this is a good thing. Sure anyone can join T13 for $800/year and up to $10K in travel cost. Anyone can join T10 for $10K/year and additional $10K in travel cost.
Any other class/level of membership is worthless. If you can not vote why bother.
I do not remember meeting you when I was working with VP Skinner in the Longmont office, the division of firmware for all of Maxtor. This could be that you were part of the Quantum merger?
Regardless, I may be hard to understand. The drive companies are harder being mimes until recently.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Mudama, Eric wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Samium Gromoff [mailto:deepfire@ibe.miee.ru] > > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:08 AM > > To: Mudama, Eric > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: RE: Blockbusting news, results get worse > > > > > > Eric Mudama wrote: > > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Eric, > > > > > > > > Item "3" in your list is not practical, because no drive > > > > maker allows the same drives that large oem's purchase to > > be placed in retail. > > > > There are obvious reasons, but your position stated for > > the average joe > > > > consumer is flawed. > > > > > > I don't believe your statement is correct that OEM drives > > and retail drives > > > always differ. They may have slight configuration differences, but > > > fundamentally I think they're the same drive with identical or > > > near-identical firmware. > > > > If there is somebody you should believe about such stuff, > > that would be Andre. > > (by the way he was a T13 committee member not so long ago) > > That's nice. For $800/year, anyone can join who is interested, provided > they can attend the meetings. Anyone is free to join and ask questions on > the T13 mailing list. > > http://www.t13.org > > As to the "facts," I guess I choose to believe myself, since I'm one of the > guys writing firmware that decides drive behavior in many of these cases > that people bring up. Now, I've only been doing this for 3 years, so if > there was something done greater than 3 years ago, odds are I haven't heard > of it. I am only speaking from recent experience. > > As to "believing" Andre, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he comes off as > awefully bitter... it's tough to read more than a few sentences of what he > writes. He obviously "knows" stuff, but wants to make people jump through > hoops to learn what he knows. > > > And, hey, i would have been rather surprised if you have > > answered otherwise, given your email address... > > Of course, you can dismiss everything I'm saying if you like. However, I'd > like to think I've been helpful to someone. Disk drives don't work quite > the way some people think, so I like to try to clear up these misconceptions > thinking it will eventually help produce better linux code that works better > with the IDE drives I can afford. > > --eric > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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