Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:46:16 +0200 | From | Lionel Bouton <> | Subject | Re: Uncorrectable Error on IDE, significant accumulation |
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Konstantin Kletschke wrote the following on 10/20/2003 03:27 PM :
>Hi there. > >I have a probably unusual question which is mainly directed to the >linux-kernel IDE driver developers due to their experience with IDE >disks. > >I have a PC @home, which accumulates HDDs in it which die. > >This Weekend my 120GB Maxtor begun to die with Uncorrectable Errors. >I thought "OK, another damn Quality Hard Drive" But half a year ago I >replaced a not so old 40GB MAxtor in it and before that a 20GB System >Disk and a WD800JB has already 6 Secors remapped (smartctl -a). My >friends call me the "Master of the HDD cemetary". > >After that I realized, that 99% of my harddisk which die do this in that >PC. I have a K7S5A Mainboard in it with SiS chipset. Kernel IDE Driver >sis5513 is compiled in, UDMA switched on. > >
When did you purchase it ? Better : can you find the revision (black on white sticker glued in the corner of the motherboard near the last PCI slot) ?
There were electrical defects with the earliest K7S5A revisions (I returned one myself). Rev 0, 1, 2 and 3 are affected, I don't remember for 4-6 but IIRC rev 7 and above aren't affected : I have a rev 5 or 7 at home (don't remember which one it is) and it works perfectly.
LB.
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