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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:54:54
Message-Id: 4CF4C991.9060202@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk: by "J. Roeleveld"
1 on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
2 > On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
3 >> on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
4 >>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
5 >>>
6 >>> just because some of you might have missed it...
7 >>
8 >> Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:
9 >>
10 >> SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
11 >> SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
12 >> SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
13 >> SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
14 >> SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
15 >> WDC WD6400AAKS
16 >> WDC WD10EADS
17 >>
18 >> Are these also affected?
19 >
20 > Considering the line right above that list is:
21 > "* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys driver
22 > with the following other disks: "
23 >
24 > with the "not" in bold, I would assume that those drives are not affected by
25 > this bug in the drives firmware.
26 >
27 > --
28 > Joost Roeleveld
29 >
30 >
31 Thanks. That's what I thought too, it's the other lines that followed,
32 that puzzled me. O:-)

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