Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:03:49 -0500 (EST) | From | Al Thompson <> | Subject | Re: IDE Disk Problems |
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Gary Vinson wrote:
> Hello, > > 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
The Caviar drives have problems. From the time they came out, they have had a high rate of return for early failure.
> One other piece of information. On at least two of these systems, the > CPU fan was not working. These are pentium class processors and I have > always heard that you can get very flaky results when these processors > heat up.
This could be a problem also.
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