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Re: HardDisk problems




WD disks from the "3" series are known trouble makers.
the die too soon, and cause errors.
the newer 4 series do not have those problems.
you can look at the drive model its the series number followed by 
the drive size ( i.e. 36400 is a 6.4 GB drive from series 3).
as I remember, most of the 4-8 GB drives are from 3 series.

Alon.


Moran Cohen wrote:
> 
> "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....
> (aka buy@Excellnet...)
> 
> Cheers,
>     Moran
> 
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