Mick wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > >> <snip> >> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of >> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a >> very similar error. My Western Digital doesn't have any errors at all. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > Here ya' go: > ==================================== > # hdparm -i /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > > Model=IC25N020ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO1OAD5A, SerialNo=MRX107K1DS623H > Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 > BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1740kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 > CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39070080 > IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} > PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 > AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled > Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6 > > * signifies the current active mode > ==================================== >
So is it a Hitachi or IBM? I was curious since mine is a Maxtor and has similar errors. I had a thread a while back. Here is some of the info I was given to read. http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/01/08/anatomy-of-a-drive-failure Maybe something will make sense. Dale :-) :-)