Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:46:28 -0600 | | From | JHazard <> | | Subject | Re: IDE Disk Problems |
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The Feb 3rd Issue of PCWeek (page 14) talks about HP and Western-Digital have announced a problem: very high failure rate in the Caviar 1.6s installed in the HP 5 series. They will replace drives...
Mark Johnson wrote:
> I'd suggest making sure your drives are cool, buy a couple fans for your > system(s), if they don't have any now. > I've also read that power is very important. If you can, isolate your > equipment onto their own circuit, be sure its not shared with heavy power > consumers (like a washing machine, oven, heater, etc.). > > On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Gary Vinson wrote: > > We are running Linux Redhat 3.0.3 (1.2.13 kernel) using Cyrix 586. > > 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 > [snip]
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