On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:31:26AM -0600, Herman Oosthuysen wrote: > Self demagnetization used to be a problem of magnetic media and some > components such as capacitors used to deteriorate with age, but I think > that those problems have been solved decades ago, so equipment in clean > and dry storage should last almost forever. You missed "stable temperature" as well. Some capacitors still "dry out" with age and heat, even with todays technology. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html