Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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
