Messages in this thread | | | From | "Simon Turvey" <> | Subject | Re: IDE error on 2.4.17 | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:12:22 -0000 |
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It's a dev box anyway - just for tinkering. Even so, it's annoying.
Someone asked what the drive model was: IBM-DTLA-305030.
Will send the bugger back in the morning.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rees" <dbr@greenhydrant.com> To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: Re: IDE error on 2.4.17
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:50:15PM -0000, Simon Turvey wrote: > > The drive's less than a year old :-( > > > > Should I try disabling some of the UDMA stuff? > > Age of the disk doesn't matter, they'll die at any age. They seem to die > most frequently either within one year, or after 3 years. > > Turning off UDMA probably won't help, it looks like it's time to restore > from backups. If you try to recover data from the disk, make sure you mount > it in read-only mode if you can get the drive that far up if you reboot. > > -Dave > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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