Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-02-01 Thread Jason Andresen
Sam Leffler wrote: I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the machine). These were all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-25 Thread Danny Howard
Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:36:05PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: What 'other vendor' have you found that makes RELIABLE SATA disks in the high capacity (e.g. 200-300gb) arena? WD now makes a SATA RAID line. HIGHLY recommended by 3ware. I read with some alarm about trouble

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-24 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-01-20 15:26:21 -0800: Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seagate's have been getting very poor performance reviews of late. Do you have any URLs? While I haven't been following disk drives closely, I haven't seen anything that points at very poor

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-21 Thread Stein M. Sandbech
On Jan 20, 2005, at 22:09, Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:36:05PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: What 'other vendor' have you found that makes RELIABLE SATA disks in the high capacity (e.g. 200-300gb) arena? WD now makes a SATA RAID line. HIGHLY recommended by 3ware. FYI, Im

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Stein M. Sandbech wrote: [ ... ] I'm having problems with this disk just after startup, and it seem to me its related to temperature. Occationally, when starting up with disk @ room temperature I usually get a handfull of the checksum errors listed below. If it been sitting in the car for a

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These two are DiamondMax10s - let's hope that this doesn't apply to that line as well. Out of curiosity, why didn't you consider Seagate ? The recent Maxtors that I have, if run 24x7, seem to die just after the warranty expires (for me, just over

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-20 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:36:05PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: What 'other vendor' have you found that makes RELIABLE SATA disks in the high capacity (e.g. 200-300gb) arena? WD now makes a SATA RAID line. HIGHLY recommended by 3ware. /\/\ \/\/

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-20 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:17:40AM -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These two are DiamondMax10s - let's hope that this doesn't apply to that line as well. Out of curiosity, why didn't you consider Seagate ? The recent Maxtors that I have, if

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seagate's have been getting very poor performance reviews of late. Do you have any URLs? While I haven't been following disk drives closely, I haven't seen anything that points at very poor performance (average/boring performance, yes, but

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:06:04PM -0800, Jon Simola wrote: On a different box (Supermicro SuperServer 5013C-T, P4SCE BIOS v1.2c): .. A pair of Maxtor 80GBs, the BIOS is set for Enhanced, up to 6 drives (4 IDE + 2 SATA). Crazy as though it seems, I wasn't kidding about changing

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread Sam Leffler
I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the machine). These were all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 160GB Serial ATA

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:18:08PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the machine). These

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread David G. Lawrence
I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the machine). These were all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 160GB Serial ATA