On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:55:29PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > I have now some bad blocks on my 2-year-old WD Caviar IDE drive. I'm not > > > overly concerned, because I have a brand new SeaGate, on where I install > > > hamm atm, but I wonder if linux can mark bad blacks as 'used', so that it > > > doesn't write on them anymore. Or how do you cope with bad blocks? > > > (I also get irq timeouts and drive resets, and then the system hangs. > > > Why?) > > > Just a little note: > > I installed one of these new DMA33/EIDE drives in a system that had been > running for over 6 months. At the same time, I moved from 2.0.29 kernel to > 2.0.33. The machine has not been up for more than two weeks since. I > started getting disk errors and IDE resets as soon as I installed that new > drive. Is that new Seagate that you mention one of the new large DMA33 > capable drives and did the problems with the WD start around the time you > installed the Seagate? Also which kernel are you running?
Wow, what shall I say? I installed the SeaGate Medalist 2122 (ST32122A) 2,1 GB just a couple of days ago, and am running the 2.0.33-5 kernel. I didn't have any trouble before installing the new drive. I got first bad blocks trouble yesterday. But I don't know if the SeaGate drive is one of the new drives you mention. This is what dmesg tells me: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f hda: WDC AC21000H, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=525/64/63, DMA hdc: ST32122A, 2014MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63 hdd: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5302TA, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Do you think this is a kernel bug? Gosh. I'm out of knowledge and experience here (and have to get some sleep). (BTW: atm all is okay, but I don't work with hda much. I installed Debian 2.0 fresh on hdc and am now moving). Good night good fellows, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]