Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 07:58 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> please read the article again... relatime might help as part of a
> workaround but the article makes pretty clear that there is no sane way
> you can solve it on the software side in a nonintrusive way, its a
> hardware vendor setting and hardware vendors need to fix it.

Could a list of vendors who make crappy hard drives (ie ones with this
issue) be made so we all can avoid them?  I can say my Western Digitals
don't have the issue, though they do have a tendency to die anyway (bad
sectors and dead circuitry, no clicking or oddly high disk i/o).

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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