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Re: HD problems
- To: Cedar Cox <cedarc(at-nospam)visionforisrael.com>
- Subject: Re: HD problems
- From: Eran Levy <eranle(at-nospam)netvision.net.il>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:10:59 +0200
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110231301130.14955-100000@nanu.visionforisrael.com>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
At 13:13 23/10/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>A friend of mine is having problems with their computer so I went over to
>fix it and found something strange. The hard disk seems to "sleep" during
>write operations. Read is fine (fast actually). IIRC, it's a Western
>Digital 4.?. It does work, it's just slow. The OS doesn't matter, Linux
>or dos/win98. As a test I did this: dd 2.5MB from /dev/zero to the HD (a
>FAT partition). Works fine. 3MB and it "sleeps". 5.5MB and is works (I
>found this out when I got my block size wrong with dd). Now, let me
>define "sleep": It sounds a bit like the HD is thrashing, but the HD
>light is off (and the light does work). The OS will politely wait until
>it's done and then continue. Win98 took over 2 hours to install and this
>is a P300. Anyway, any ideas? Almost dead HD or IDE controller?
If you say that it took over 2 hours to install win98 on P300 computer,
means, by a new H.D. ;)
From what I have experienced in this situation, changing the H.D. will
give the solution.
>-Cedar
>
>
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Best Regards,
Eran Levy.
"This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows
reboot..."
WebSite: http://levy.dyn.dhs.org
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