[ale] More on Bad HDD?

[Christopher Fowler]

The other drive is a Seagate.



On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 09:50, msmith at mikeandmel.com wrote:
> What kind of hard drive do you have?  If its a Maxtor,
> you may have to turn the write verify on....
> 
> Check out http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm.  There
> is a utility called wvset.exe.  I had a similar problem
> that was fixed by turning the write verify on. It slows
> down the hard drive but it forces a write verify thus(I
> can only guess) avoiding the CRC Errors.
> 
> Here's the exact information from the Maxtor site:
> 
> Maxtor hard drives are normally shipped with the "write
> verify" feature enabled. The "write verify" feature is
> enabled to provide protection against any particles
> that may have moved caused by mishandling. This feature
> is enabled only for the first 10 power cycles after
> which the feature will be disabled. A power cycle is
> the normal shutdown operations of the computer,
> including turning the power off. 
> 
> "Write Verify" performs a Read of the data just written
> to the hard drive and validates the data via the Cyclic
> Redundancy Check (CRC), providing additional assurance
> that the data written to the hard drive was written
> correctly. When Write Verify is enabled, the WRITE
> performance of the drive is affected as a read occurs
> for each write. When disabled WRITE performance is
> improved as, a read is not performed for each write. 
> 
> When performing benchmark operations the "write verify"
> feature should be disabled to insure valid comparisons
> to other products that do not offer this capability in
> their product. 
> 
> To enable, disable, or set occurrence values(number of
> power on/off cycles) for the "Write Verify" operation
> please refer to the WVSET Program
> 
> cfowler wrote
> 
> > 
> > HaHa!  I just installed RH7.3 on a new machine with a
> new HDD and guess
> > what?  I get BadCRC errors.  This is not a bad HDD
> issue.  The driver
> > needs fixing.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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