Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means."

[Krzysztof Halasa]

"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [ Actually, I'm not surprised as we are getting patches/reports for much
>   older/buggier hardware...  After all we are doing Linux not some other
>   OS whose every release obsoletes the old hardware. ;-) ]

It isn't just about old/buggy hardware (personally I'm using much
older items). The DTLA disks had "rather" short MTBF, with something
like 30% returns in the first year after purchase, according to a
friendly distributor. Despite firmware upgrades, they were unfixable.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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