On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:15, Daniel Axtell wrote:
> > > Also, thanks to those who replied about the possible IDE disk problem
> > > with the Abit KT7 motherboard, but I gather from the newsgroups that
> > > the HighPoint HPT370 UDMA chip is a problem with Linux. The
> > > motherboard/disk combination has worked for months; does anyone have
> > > idea whether the "dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > > SeekCompleteError}" or "dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC
> > > }" is something serious on a seemingly-stable system or can I ignore
> > > it?
> >
> > You have a Western Digital Drive?
> >
> > If so, it is pretty normal. So is the eventual data corruption you will
> > get above UDMA2 (33MHz). WDs simply do not have the hardware to cope
> > with higher speeds and cannot do the required 57-byte CRCs. And if you
> > don't believe me, email Andre Hedrick direct.
>
> It is a WD Caviar 200BB, which I bought after reading good reviews at some
> hardware website (either Tomshardware or anandtech). Can anyone
> recommend a good 7200 RPM that will work reliably with the ATA100 HPT370
> chipset? Or am I going to have to scrap the motherboard as well?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
The Mobo is fine. I don't believe you can use the HPT370 in its RAID mode in
linux because none of the software RAIDs are supported (and the IDE RAIDs are
all software). It is a matter like the winmodems--proprietary software, and
Linux already has a software RAID superior to any of those proprietary
implementations (will do RAID 0,1,4,5 and doesn't require identical disks).
Some have claimed Quantum is good, others like Maxtor, many have report
problems with one or the other (and these days the two are the SAME).
No one has ever mentioned a problem to me about an IBM IDE drive.
(I'm sure I'll hear some now :-)
Sent FWIW,
Civileme
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