Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:27:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | venom@sns ... | Subject | Re: IBM Desktar disk problem? |
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:40:37 +0200 > From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> > To: venom@sns.it > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: IBM Desktar disk problem? > > On Fri, Jul 05 2002, venom@sns.it wrote: > > > > HI, > > I was trying kernel 2.5 with TCQ enabled. > > I tried it on three Desktar disk (manufactured in Thailand > > in february 2001) model dtla 305020. > > > > All three disk died after some week, without > > any signal of being dying. > > I was starting to suspect about an HW problem. > > > > With 2.4 kernels, no tcq, they could work > > without any problem for almost 8 months, but now, > > I moved those disk to test systems to test tcq support > > and all died badly. This is not an heat problem, since > > thay staty in a CED conditioned at 18C. > > This is a puzzling report. I wouldn't recommend that anyone use tcq in > 2.5 actually, since even I do not know what state it is currently in. I > would seriously recommend 2.4 + tcq patches instead. > > That said, are your disks completely dead now? As in they do not work > with a regular 2.4 kernel anymore?!
Right now they are good just for the trash box. There is no way they could work, and I listen a noisy tic-tac frrr tic-tac from the head of the disks...
I would think to an HW problem, but why all three together? and why exacly when I tested tcq?
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