Eugenio Diaz wrote:
> > For me, it's a hardware bug (hd or cable; eg, for
> > udma66, lots of read error
> > were due to bad cables ...)
>
> No way!
>
> The 2.2.17-*mdk rpms have IDE fucked up. On my machine
> it hangs (lock keys don't switch lights) when it goes
> to check the partition tables, with an UDMA time-out.
>
> 2.2.16-9mdk works fine.
>
> Several other people have also complained.
>
> I have a gateway PPro200 G6 + Promise Ultra66 + 3x WD
> drives + 1x Maxtor. It chokes on one of the 3 WD.
Andre Hedrick has had quite a lot to say about the WD, expecially
in combo with Maxtor (on same cable) and their ability to destroy
each other's data with timing chatter. http://kt.linuxcare.com
circa mid-February. There are some severe hardware problems, a
result of cheap corner-cutting design (like blowing off the CRC)
which are exacerbated by 486, 586, and 686 code.
I am running an overclocked Duron which hits the IDE bus at 70 MHz
and haven't had a whimper out of the IBM drives there. I will
give 2.2.17 a trial and report within 24 hours. (I know a Seagate
ST38641 just plain locks up in this situation, even without the
overclocking)
Civileme
>
>
> All the drives are on the Promise card, the mobo IDE
> only has a CDROM and a CDRW.
>
> According to /proc/ide/* the IDE chipsets on the
> machine are "Intel PII3X" for the mobo, and "PDC20262"
> for the Promise card.
>
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