Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Western Digital hard drive and DMA | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 09 Sep 2002 22:08:14 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 03:19, Horst von Brand wrote: > Use DMA for a week or so, and / is mangled beyond recognition (seems to > happen with read-only access too). Chipset is intel (sr440bx board, PIIX4E > IDE). Have heard of similar problems with DMA on WD drives, but got no > details.
Old old (we are talking 340MB era here) WD had some DMA problems in a few cases. We know about it and blacklist such drives. I'm aware of a few "UDMA doesnt work" type incompatibilities with WD drives but not with PIIX and always UDMA crc errors
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