I don't know how much my input will help, since I never had a real solution to the problem, but I had an IBM 40GB drive that did the same thing. Originally, I had it installed in my main workstation, but I started seeing these errors until finally it wouldn't boot anymore. Unfortunately, it ate all the info on the drive and the only way to recover was to zero it out with IBM's utilitiy diskette. I stuck it in another machine to see if it would die again, where it ran for a few more months before popping up the same errors. I was in the process of moving, so I didn't have time to worry about it. When the move was complete, I booted up the machine, and had the same problem as before. This time, however, the drive couldn't even be helped by the IBM utility disk: Their software diagnosed it as a S.M.A.R.T. controller failure. I've never seen this on any of my other machines, and another drive is working fine in the system as we speak... could it be that it's indicative of a hardware failure, as in my case? On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, James C. Bevier wrote: > I have this exact problem. The messages were not there on > on RH 7.3, they started with 8.0. My disk is an IBM 40Gb > and previous messages I have seen say it is a problem with > IBM disks. I think the original person on this thread said > they were using a Maxtor. The second drive on my system is > a Quantum and does not have this error. This is the second > 'new' cable, I have updated the firmware in the disk drive > and the motherboard. I have also tried both of the > connectors. The MB is a PCChips and has a SiS730 ATA 100 > controller. I got 3-10 error a day. I copied the disk > back to an older 30 Gb Wester Digital and do not have any > more errors. The processor is a 1 GHz AMD Athlon with > 1 Gb of memory. I have not tried this drive in another > system lately. It was in another system under RH 7.2 and > I did not have any errors. I have always been running with > DMA selected. Does anyone know of any common thread for > the problem? Any other ideas? > > > > > -- -------- Ben Brown xthor@xthorsworld.com http://www.xthorsworld.com/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
