Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
You'd be surprises how often that can happen. I purchase from a
wholesaler, and they don't check to see if the drives are good, though
they have allways been good about replacing them. Many resalers are
similar, though some do do some testing.
Philip Thiem
Michael Stone wrote:
>
> Quoting bernie@brainiac.com (bernie@brainiac.com):
> > On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:11:25PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > > In my case, no, it is definately a problem with the linux ide driver and
> > > how it handles UDMA drives. I have seen exactly the same problem on two
> > > different systems with two different hard drives of different manufacture
> > > with different motherboards and chipsets. Once I got enough features
> > > disabled (turning off the drive's internal readahead with hdparm -A0,
> > > turning off multiwrite with -m0, eliminating filesystem readahead with
> > > -a0) and turning off enough BIOS features, I finally have a drive that
> > >
> > I have had two Quantum drives basically eat themselves (the sound they
> > make is like an old window shade spring suddenly snapping back with a
> > 'whirr' noise). They have been UDMA drives, running on an Asus MB with
> > a K6-233, and Debian 2.0 running the default kernel. So I am very much
> > interested in what you report!
>
> FWIW, I also had two drives go south. One was a 8G Maxtor, one was a 6G
> WesternDigital bought as an emergency replacement for the Maxtor. The
> Maxtor started losing things, and the WD had a loud clicking death. I
> pulled another 8G Maxtor out of a working system and put it in the linux
> machine and haven't had any problems since then. As unlikely as it
> seems, I can only conclude that I got burned with two bad drives.
>
> Mike Stone
>
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