[ale] hard drive won't mount

[Keith R. Watson]

James,

Your memory serves you well. That manufacturer would be Maxtor. I too avoid 
Maxtor hard drives like the plague.

keith

At 12:48 6/20/2002 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>That is a bad drive error. The reason that it worked OK under the other,
>older systems was the IDE interface was not as fast as it is now. The
>current IDE drivers expect the hardware to perform as it is rated. CRC
>errors are indicative of a hardware problem. The data did not get
>written to drive properly. Throw out the drive.
>
>There was a drive (manufacturer escapes me) that _disabled_ the CRC in
>order to get faster writes. Thet drive required special drivers for
>windows and constantly failed in all Linux boxes until the "feature" was
>discovered and disabled.
>
>On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 11:43, keith frost wrote:
> > that's the one that kept bitting me, only mine was
> > continuous.
> > in my case the kernel was so busy sending error
> > messages about the bad crc that it was showing up on
> > my loadmeter.  i tried the hdparam as well but with no
> > luck.  in the end i went to a 2.2 based debian
> > potato/sid.
> > this is where i've been ever since.  i had people
> > telling me to throw away the drive or send it back to
> > the manufurer, that it was defective.  funny it worked
> > great on the older mandrakes(w/2.2) and debian
> > potato(2.2).
> >
> > it's been almost a year now the drive is still going
> > strong.
> >
> > --- cfowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > > I have a 7200 RPM 60GB drive on on RH7.3 sometimes I
> > > get bad crc
> > > errors.  These ususally come in groups.  But I have
> > > not had any luck
> > > turning DMA off with hdparam.
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> >
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
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