Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:26:16 +0200 | From | Kristian Peters <> | Subject | Re: IBM DTLA IDE Made In Hungary |
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Hello.
I experienced problems with their 40 GB and 75 GB variants. The first one was made in Thaiwan. So it isn't really a matter from where they're coming from. I'm testing right now. I have applied a special crc-patch and a self-made patch. The problems didn't appeared again yet. I'm also testing with UDMA modes. The drives are coming with UDMA 5 enabled, but linux and my board are'nt supporting it. So I downspeeded them with IBM's Feature Tool. I first experienced faults with linux>=2.4.5-ac12. Mostly the errors appeared after a boot in the morning as the drive was down for hours and cold too.
But I don't own any RAID-controllers. I have just a simple UDMA2-controller. Maybe these faults are only occuring in connection with my specific hardware. I don't know.
So if you hadn't had any problems before you're disks would be safe for now.
Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> A while ago I read about these drives on lkml. > Someone was experiencing problems with them, and now I am too. > We have a sh*tload of systems using these in a Promise SuperTrak IDE RAID > setups. > So we have 8raid*6drives running over here, and I'm afraid that they will > start falling apart.
> > Does anyone have any info on these problems ? > URL:s, pointers, whatever? > Has IBM said anything about this? > > Should I demand that the company selling these drives to us exhange those > for some other brand, or what? > > Cheers > > Magnus
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