On Monday 16 December 2002 11:09 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > 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 > Thank you very much. I'll go looking.I have about 9,000 messages saved. :)
> 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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