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
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