> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of KELEMEN Peter > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:29 AM > To: Linux RAID > Subject: Re: Distributed spares > > * David Lethe (david@xxxxxxxxxxxx) [20081014 10:18]: > > > The manuals are all online. There are typically several to > > choose from. Installation Manuals are standard, but are pretty > > worthless. Look for programming/interface specification > > manuals. They are not always online where you can find them > > easy, it depends on the manufacturer. They're typically several > > hundred pages long. [...] > > Could you please point to a few of them? I have never seen > “several hundred pages long” public manuals for any hard drive. > I'm pretty sure many people on this list would appreciate your > efforts, since you seem to be in the know. > > Thanks, > Peter > > -- > .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. > .+'' > Kelemen Péter / \ / \ Peter.Kelemen@xxxxxxx > .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' > -- > 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 Look for keywords "product manual" "interface specification", in the support site. Not the installation guides or datasheets. The real sneaky thing to do, however, is let google find manuals for you. Use google's advanced site search, point it to Seagate, Maxtor, whatever, and Tell it to look for PDFs, give keywords of interface manual, or drive part number. sas interface manual site:seagate.com filetype:pdf 3 out of the first 4 hits on Seagate were interface manuals. You can have similar luck with other drive manufacturers. Read the manual and they reference other manuals which have more information, but that is more info than you likely need. The interface manual for drive family is Sufficient for most people. No way will they give firmware release notes or updates out to public. It would scare the heck out of people, and most people wouldn't know What to do with drive firmware update if they had it, and if they don't set mode pages properly then an update could do real damage to their data. David ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{����w��ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f
