On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Since installing smartsuite I am getting many reports of hard drive seek > errors. One of the drives is brand new, just installed two weeks ago. > > I don't understand this. insufficient info ... what kind of drives ?? - if ibm deskstars .. throw it away buggs in smartsuite ?? - what is reported by the other SMART sw/ tools ?? http://www.Linux-1U.net/Diags/ see the disk section if you have cdrom/dvd on the same cable as your hard disks.. - use one drive per cable ( do NOT mix different speed ata drives on the same cable ) if you have "cheap ide cable" .. throw it away - use 80-conductor cable, less that 18" long check your kernel options for the disk controller - dma mode should be supportable have fun alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]