Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Slow yes, unusable no. I was getting a whopping 2MB/s transfer rate! But it was reliable, and allowed me to save all the stuff of the disk.hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda
Yes I know. The point is, the machine is unusable with DMA off.
You don't know until you try. Take in documentary proof, from a couple of systems if possible. Then be objectionable until they do replace it.
Following on from other threads that have lately been on about this, I'd get what you can off the disk, reformat and take it back, assuming it's still under warranty.
The problem with that is that unless a disk is mostly dead, I expect they'll come up with all sorts of excuses why a couple of bad sectors is perfectly normal for a disk drive. Currently I'm hoping that read/writing the bad areas often enough (while they aren't in real use) will eventually cause the disk to think it has a big-enough problem.
Volker
Worked for me.
Steve
