Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:41:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.111: IDE DMA disabled? |
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:22:18 +0300 (IST) > From: Gadi Oxman <gadio@netvision.net.il> > > The configuration on which the filesystem corruption was observed > is a Tyan Tomcat III board + WD 2.2GB drive; that motherboard is > using the 430HX chipset, which pre-dates Ultra-DMA and doesn't > support CRC check. > > If it's a WD Caviar of some sort, I see these corruptions too. Every > machine I have ever had the unfortunate luck to have a WD Caviar IDE > disk in, gave me random corruptions with DMA enabled over time. > > I think the real solution is a "DMA black list" for certain IDE drive > types and manufacturers.
Older Caviar drives have known corruption problems. I dound that out on their website a year ago when I was looking for a fix for my dead cavialr 2100 (1.0 gig, broken drive head servo). There is at least 1 store in my area that refuses to sell them anymore.
Gerhard
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