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HD problems
- To: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Subject: HD problems
- From: Cedar Cox <cedarc(at-nospam)visionforisrael.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:13:14 +0200 (IST)
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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?
-Cedar
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