From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:53:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:52:54 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.0.238]:26896 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:52:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3B88E06A.85235122@namesys.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:41:30 +0400 From: Hans Reiser Organization: Namesys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nikita Danilov Subject: Re: [OT] Howl of soul... In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ 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