Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:29:30 +0100 | From | "Marcel J.E. Mol" <> | Subject | Re: New ac patch??? |
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:03:27AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Not exaclty. It is a 48Gig drive in a dell inspiron 8000. I think it is > > > > IBM but the logs do not show a brandname. I can try open up the case tonight > > > > if you want to know for sure? > > > > > > It's an IBM IC25T048ATDA05-0 to be precise. > > > > Thanks. It seems IBM laptop drives are the ones that specifically need this > > fix. That ties in with the windows 98 reports/microsoft fixes. > > I'm using IBM 240Z with IBM-DJSA-220 (20GB, 9.5mm thickness) with > 2.4.15-pre7 and it does not need any fixes. Disk clean after shutdown.
Does it have write caching enabled? check with hdparm ( I think you need one of the latest hdparm versions...)
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