Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:42:44 -0600 (CST) | From | "Jonathan A. Davis" <> | Subject | Re: IDE Disk Problems |
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Now, my question is, can (or is it remotely possible) linux be > > writing something out to the WD IDE drives to break the drive. The > > analogy being, that you can write to a video controller and cause > > damage to a monitor. One of our people have suggested that Linux is > > writing to sector 0 of the WD IDE drive. > > No IDE doesnt permit a host system to damage the disk. The bang bang sounds > like the unit is dead. > > > These WDs drives were bought at separate times so we do not suspect > > that we got hold of a bad batch of drives. >
Would it happen to be a Caviar 21000 series? We had a lab full of them (P5/120 Linux workstations). Turns out they had a firmware defect that *really* showed up under heavy access (read: non-windoze). WD shipped us a firmware upgrade, but, as we found out, ten minutes worth of access on the drive already did the damage, of the 29 machines, all but 5 have been replaced.
WD fixed the problem before introduction of the 31000.
Cheers,
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