Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:41:02 +0000 (GMT) | From | John Heil <> | Subject | Re: IDE Disk Problems |
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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]
Did either/both of these drives have active swap spaces on them? I've just retired a 1.2G Maxtor that was beginning to pick up similar kernel error messages after several years in service but it served as my swap volume among other things. It recieved a brutal beating on a regular basis. Unfortunately perhaps, its replacement is (already) a WD Caviar 22100 2.1G. As to WD Caviar reliabilty, I have another WD Caviar 21600 1.6G that is now my root drive. Its about6 months old and so far so good, however, I just discovered that its slave jumper setting causes it to hang when accessed (still under warranty so its headed back to WD).
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