Stephen C Woods wrote: > So drives do need to be ventilated, not so much wory about exploding, > but rather subtle distortion of the case as the atmospheric preasure > changed. I have a '94 Caviar without any apparent holes; and as a bonus, the drive still works. In contrast, ever since these holes appeared, drive failures became the norm. > Doe anyone rememnber that you had to let you drives acclimate to your > machine room for a day or so before you used them. The problem is, that's not enough; the room temperature/humidity has to be controlled too. In a desktop environment, that's not really feasible. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html