Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:22:37 +0100 () | From | Hugo Van den Berg <> | Subject | Re: IDE Disk Problems |
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, John Heil wrote:
> 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]
I had the same problem on a 21000 (1Gb). Sent it back to the supplier, they replaced the disks software and did a new low level format. Had no trouble since. There have been problems with a few series of WD drives that require a replacement of the drive's software. You can download a fix from www.wdc.com
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