Hard drive spec change

[Ric Wheeler]

On 03/19/2010 10:04 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:56:10AM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>
>> We are currently working to verify that storage devices work properly&  report
>> the information that they want us to use (doing this with several storage
>> providers and have also raised this with EMC/VMware).
>
>> If we see real world issues during this testing, we can start thinking about how
>> to fix it.
>
> This is good, but it already failed with Western Digital afaik. I
> somewhere read that they did it correctly with test drives but now the
> released drives do not report their sizes properly, so there are already
> real world issues. It was mentioned on this thread I and have a WD20EARS
> that shows this problem, too.
>
> Regards
> Till
>

I should have asked - do you have the details captured in bugzilla? If so, that 
will be useful to help kick off the discussion with them.

Thanks!

Ric