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From: Kristian Peters <kristian.peters@korseby.net>
To: "Magnus Naeslund(f)" <mag@fbab.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IBM DTLA IDE Made In Hungary
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:26:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA5B3A8.5080008@korseby.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12ca01c13f3b$e1ee8490$020a0a0a@totalmef>

Hello.

I experienced problems with their 40 GB and 75 GB variants. The first one was 
made in Thaiwan. So it isn't really a matter from where they're coming from.
I'm testing right now. I have applied a special crc-patch and a self-made patch. 
The problems didn't appeared again yet. I'm also testing with UDMA modes. The 
drives are coming with UDMA 5 enabled, but linux and my board are'nt supporting 
it. So I downspeeded them with IBM's Feature Tool. I first experienced faults 
with linux>=2.4.5-ac12. Mostly the errors appeared after a boot in the morning 
as the drive was down for hours and cold too.

But I don't own any RAID-controllers. I have just a simple UDMA2-controller. 
Maybe these faults are only occuring in connection with my specific hardware. I 
don't know.

So if you hadn't had any problems before you're disks would be safe for now.

Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:

> A while ago I read about these drives on lkml.
> Someone was experiencing problems with them, and now I am too.
> We have a sh*tload of systems using these in a Promise SuperTrak IDE RAID
> setups.
> So we have 8raid*6drives running over here, and I'm afraid that they will
> start falling apart.

> 
> Does anyone have any info on these problems ?
> URL:s, pointers, whatever?
> Has IBM said anything about this?
> 
> Should I demand that the company selling these drives to us exhange those
> for some other brand, or what?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Magnus


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-17  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-17  5:44 IBM DTLA IDE Made In Hungary Magnus Naeslund(f)
2001-09-17  5:49 ` Kip Macy
2001-09-17  8:26 ` Kristian Peters [this message]
2001-09-17  8:45   ` S.Benoit
     [not found] <20010917061239.1310E3CD9@prometheus.lan.berghof.org>
2001-09-17  7:35 ` Magnus Naeslund(w)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-17 18:35 Torrey Hoffman

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