Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards. Linux does rather strict checking and WD doesn't so WD drives can be problematic.
James On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 06:28, Lorne wrote: > Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just tried an > install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some limitations to the > size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe truly a kernel bug. ? > > End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector <numerous sectors> > Journal-601, buffer write failed > Kernel BUG at prints.c:334! > invalid operand: 0000 > cpu 0 > > Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've done > some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have any > light to shed? > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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