Re: [OT] Howl of soul...

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Samium Gromoff wrote:
> 
>      dear people!
> 
>    Sorry for OT, but i want only good to you, lkml
>  people...
>    If you are to buy a new ide drive, do not buy
>  recent IBM 7200 drives!!!
>    The story begins when at February of this year i`ve bought
>  perfectly shining ever-fast IBM DTLA-307045...
>    After 3 months i`ve hardly regreted about such
>  decision: drive started to covers himself with a thick
>  layer of logical-not-physical badblocks (ie lowlevel
>  reformat doesnt show anything).
>    So i went to storagereview and lerned about the matter.
>  As i found, these drives had an internal controller bug.
> 
>    So i said okay, while restoring 3rd time my reiserfs
>  and dumping data to spare drive, and went to
>  replace the drive to perfectly new and shining
>  IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 also known as 60GXP.
> 
>    Now i`am heavily punished for that.
>  Badblocks are reapperaing on runtime.
>    After they appeared first time i`ve attached large
>  fan to the drive, so it was cold(!) to touch. Also
>  i stopped to transport the drive between boxes.
> 
>    Nevertheless these fscking logical badblocks
>  appeared again twice.
> 
>    The fact is, that we had bought these drives
>  with my friend synchronusly, and now he owns
>  quantum drive, after 75gxp and 60gxp...
>    Ofcourse he had similar problems.... (btw he use windoze)
> 
>    I am _tired_ fixing my poor reiserfs root partition.
>    I can say that now i`am expert on how to restore
>  badblocked reiserfs partiotions... ;(
> 
>    Beware.
> 
> ---
> 
> cheers,
> 
>    Samium Gromoff
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I am confused, you and your friend both had problems, and you used IBM and he
used quantum?  Do they have similar electronics?

Take a look at www.namesys.com, there is a badblocks patch, god@namesys.com will
tell you details about it.

hans