By the way, I've determined our removable IDE disk trays are manufactured
by SNT (http://www.snt.com.tw/metal.htm) and are part number
SNT-129. It looks like these are the same ones startech sells.
I've placed my hardware configuration here:
Bruce Campbell said:
- try UDMA100 with the drives directly attached (ie. no removable tray) -
maybe try a non onboard IDE controller
yes I would reccomend a PCI ide controller, such as the Promise ATA/100, or
Promise ATA/66. Also be sure your IDE cables are 18 and not 24 or 32 some
people
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote:
At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is
WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 which doesn't suggest a specific
sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 makes the problem
appear to vanish.
The fallback is
Quoting Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote:
At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is
WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 which doesn't suggest a specific
sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 makes the
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:36:29AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
The fallback is clearly wrong because it turns isolated media errors
into pessimized i/o for the whole disk at best, system hangs during
resets next best, and system crashes at worst. I keep a disk with bad
media on line for
