From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:27:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:27:09 -0400 Received: from natpost.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.65]:46725 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:26:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA5B3A8.5080008@korseby.net> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:26:16 +0200 From: Kristian Peters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Magnus Naeslund(f)" CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: IBM DTLA IDE Made In Hungary In-Reply-To: <12ca01c13f3b$e1ee8490$020a0a0a@totalmef> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ·· · · reach me :: · ·· ·· · · ·· · ·· · ··· · · :: http://www.korseby.net :: http://www.tomlab.de kristian@korseby.net ....::