Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:40:37 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: IBM Desktar disk problem? |
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On Fri, Jul 05 2002, venom@sns.it wrote: > > HI, > I was trying kernel 2.5 with TCQ enabled. > I tried it on three Desktar disk (manufactured in Thailand > in february 2001) model dtla 305020. > > All three disk died after some week, without > any signal of being dying. > I was starting to suspect about an HW problem. > > With 2.4 kernels, no tcq, they could work > without any problem for almost 8 months, but now, > I moved those disk to test systems to test tcq support > and all died badly. This is not an heat problem, since > thay staty in a CED conditioned at 18C.
This is a puzzling report. I wouldn't recommend that anyone use tcq in 2.5 actually, since even I do not know what state it is currently in. I would seriously recommend 2.4 + tcq patches instead.
That said, are your disks completely dead now? As in they do not work with a regular 2.4 kernel anymore?!
-- Jens Axboe
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