LGA CPU feature (may or may not be on-topic) (REPOST)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 9/18/2006 at 6:19 PM Scott Quinn wrote:

> End of story- I now have an OT Sun Ultra 10 440MHz with Solaris 10 on it-
>Solaris is much happier on SPARCs than PCs.
> Western Digital IDE drives from the late '90s to early 2000s seem to be
going bad at shocking rates now, also. Beware.

Funny you should mention that--last week I replaced a 9GB late 90's one on
a servers.  Fortunately, I had the SMART monitoring enabled on Linux and it
diagnosed the "Drive is in imminent danger of failing" condition.  Whole
tracks were going sour.  Replaced it with a 9GB Quantum of approximately
the same age.  Maybe I'll get another couple of years out of it. 

Cheers,
Chuck