[ale] hard drive won't mount

[Geoffrey]

You know it's funny, I've heard the same about just about every other 
drive manufacturer.  The last was Western Digital.  I've a drive by just 
about every manufacturer out there.  I've got a 40 gig Maxtor and a 10 
gig WD that both are humming right along.  The WD is probably 4 years old.

The point?  I don't know what to believe anymore.  I don't know where to 
find any concise drive failure info to help me with these decisions 
either...

Keith R. Watson wrote:
> 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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