Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of
>> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a
>> very similar error. My Western Digital doesn't have any errors at all.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
>
> Here ya' go:
> ====================================
> # hdparm -i /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>
> Model=IC25N020ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO1OAD5A, SerialNo=MRX107K1DS623H
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1740kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39070080
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
> Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6
>
> * signifies the current active mode
> ====================================
>
So is it a Hitachi or IBM? I was curious since mine is a Maxtor and has
similar errors. I had a thread a while back. Here is some of the info
I was given to read.
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/01/08/anatomy-of-a-drive-failure
Maybe something will make sense.
Dale
:-) :-)
