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DateWed, 12 Feb 1997 08:22:37 +0100 ()
FromHugo Van den Berg <>
SubjectRe: IDE Disk Problems
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, John Heil wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Gary Vinson wrote:
> 
> > We have lost one Western Digital Caviar 31600 (1.6GB) IDE drive and
> > one WD Caviar (700MB) IDE drive. Now, when I say lost, I mean that when
> > the system is rebooted, the disk sounds like it is physcially broke. There
> > is a periodic clanging noise, as if one of the drive components is 
> > actually damaged. At this point, we don't get past the BIOS. 
> > 
> > These two drives ran for approximately one month each
> > before dieing. Prior to this, we noticed in our system messages:
> > 
> >     kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x4b { DriveRead DataRequest Index Error }
> >        "     "    read_intr: error=0x04  { Drive Status Error}
> >        "       ide0: do_ide_reset: success
> [snipped]

I had the same problem on a 21000 (1Gb). Sent it back to the supplier,
they replaced the disks software and did a new low level format. Had no
trouble since. There have been problems with a few series of WD drives
that require a replacement of the drive's software. You can download a fix
from www.wdc.com

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