Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
Excellent, I have a Western Digital 1.6 gb harddrive, the same one that
their web page admits to having problems with....Gateway is sending me a
new one, I only hope this one lasts until then......
(It does take some guts for WD to admit they messed up, and replace the
drives.)
Thanks for all the help---
Sam
Message from A. M. Varon (andre@lasaltech.lasaltech.com):
> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > What do you think is causing this:
> >
> > May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache,
> > LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA
> >
> > Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't
> > that field that says LBA mean the drive is in LBA mode?
> >
> > Ofcourse, you can tell it's not since the cylinders are more that 1023.
> > Not to mention I just went through switching from LBA to normal mode not
> > to long ago because of file coruption I suspected was caused by the LBA
> > mode. Which now may be something else all together.
> >
> > I've only had this drive about a year. I can't imagine it going tit's-up
> > this fast.
>
> Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is
> wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux
> mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are.
> many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com.
>
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