Hi group, A while ago my Maxtor 120G IDE HD started acting up, smartctl wouldn't pass it and in dmesg were many ominous dma_intr errors.
So from ebay I got a used Samsung 160g which I just installed. I was hoping to transfer over my OS and files etc to the "new" drive. The drive is recognized in the BIOS on a venerable PIII and assigned Ultra DMA mode 5. But I notice it is recognized as having only 131G. Maybe that's significant. IIRC the PC, a Dell, was put together in 01 and the Samsung HD is c. 2004. It's formatted completely FAT32 and mounts OK. Anyway, this is where things get even stranger. I've quadruple-checked and I still don't believe it. The Maxtor drive now PASSES smartctl -H and the "new" one FAILS. The Maxtor still gets the dma_intr errors in dmesg and the Samsung is said to have it's "DMA disabled" which contradicts the BIOS, but no other errors. Can somebody make sense of this? Maxim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
