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From: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
To: Mark Rutherford <mark@justirc.net>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ide harddisk freeze WDC WD1800JB vs VIA VT8235
Date: 01 Jan 2003 17:17:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1041437870.961.87.camel@sun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E13107E.3D579F3@justirc.net>

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 16:59, Mark Rutherford wrote:
> Q: are you using cables with a slave connector, but its not in use?
> I had this problem, with this chipset and it turned out that it didnt like
> having
> a long 80 wire cable with a loose connector
> I got a round cable with just 2 connectors, 1 for the board and 1 for the
> drive....
> never locked again.
> I thought it to be strange as well.
> but with my setup it happened more frequently, say once every 2-3 hours.
> hope this is of any help.

Thanks for your answer.

Indeed these cables have slave connectors (which are unused). I tried a
round cable and 2 different non-round ones... I also went down to udma4
(==udma66)... no use..

I am not sure whether the harddisk should cold-freeze... 

Soeren.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-01 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-01 15:33 ide harddisk freeze WDC WD1800JB vs VIA VT8235 Soeren Sonnenburg
2003-01-01 15:59 ` Mark Rutherford
2003-01-01 16:17   ` Soeren Sonnenburg [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-02  7:48 Soeren Sonnenburg

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