"Ohad M. Somjen" wrote:
> hi,
> i had a 4.3G WD drive and it gave me alot of problems so i gave it back
> and got a new 4.3G that for some time worked perfectly.
> but now i get before any try to read from the disk:
well, I had this trouble with two 5.1GB WDs...
I guess these disks can't handle uptimes of Linux systems... ;-)
> Feb 6 13:33:14 somjen kernel: hdc: write_intr: status=0x61 { DriveReady DeviceFault
>Error }
> Feb 6 13:33:14 somjen kernel: hdc: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Feb 6 13:33:14 somjen kernel: ide1: reset: success
> Feb 6 13:33:14 somjen kernel: hdc: write_intr: status=0x61 { DriveReady DeviceFault
>Error }
You should do a /sbin/badblocks and see what it tells you.
A couple of things other than badblocks can be:
- misconfigured /dev/hdc in BIOS, (what mode are you acessing it?)
- screwed up IDE controller ? (try the same disk on another system)
- kernel bug ? (what version are you using ?)
Also, does fsck give you a bad time ?
> the downtimes are max 1 hour.
>
> i know now that WD makes terrible disks, but what should i do with this one. it was
>purchased
> in excelnet (and it took them 2 months to exchange the last disk).
Well, I think we have a good idea of what _NOT_ to do....
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Moran
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