On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 05:09:52 +1200, Sharrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > IBM drives made in the year or so have had major reliability problems. In > > fact, IBM are trying to get out of the business by selling most (70%) of > > their hard drive unit to Hitachi. Quantum Bigfoots have had reliability > > problems as well. I am on my third 12GB Bigfoot TX after the first two > > died on me. Fortunately, this one seems to be doing very well. The > > Seagate Barracuda IV is, I believe, a reliable drive. I have 2 80GB > > models in one machine and I've had no trouble. > > Yes, in the last six months I've read many complaints and horror stories > about IBM drives so it came as no surprise to me when my IBM drive died. > I've had no problem with my old Quantum tho (touch wood). I've only had > the Seagate approx. 4 months and so far so good - jeez its so quiet I keep > checking the light to see if its doing anything!
Yeah, I do the same for my two Seagate drives. I have them configured into a RAID0, so every read or write operation is done to both drives at once. Even with both drives going, I can't hear them over the system fans. > > What are your hard drive BIOS settings? > > Both drives set to Auto Detection in BIOS which shows: > Seagate (/dev/hda) CHS=28733/16/255 Size=600025 MB > Quantum (/dev/hdb) CHS=13446/15/63 Size=6506 MB > > > Is LBA turned on? > > How do you turn LBA on? I have "lba32" (without the quotes) in lilo.conf if > thats what you mean. There should be an LBA option in the BIOS. > > What you should do is go to the Seagate and IBM Web sites and download > > their drive diagnostic utilities. They will hopefully be able to analyse > > the drives and tell you what's wrong. > > I went to the Seagate web site but their diagnostic utility only runs in > Windoze which I'm pleased to say does not exist on this PC. My 2nd PC will > have Mandrake and Windoze when my new hard drive arrives - I've just > ordered an 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV. The Seagate diagnostic utility downloads as a Windows executable that is used to make a boot disc. You can make the boot disc on any Windows machine, and it should work on any system. IIRC, the IBM Feature tool works in the same way. > > In addition, the IBM Feature Tool > > can turn off Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) on the Seagate drive, > > giving you better drive performance (hdparm can do this as well, but I'm > > not sure if that setting remains after a reboot) . > > I'll check that out. Is the drive still so quiet when AAM is turned off? My ears can't tell the difference either way. > Also, may I ask what your model and settings are for your 80GB Seagate > drives so that I might have some idea when my new one arrives? According to hdparm: model = ST380021A CHS = 16383/16/63 LBA is on -- Sridhar Dhanapalan " An ordinary frog goes "ribbit, ribbit" and a budfrog goes "bud ,,, Weis... Er", but a winfrog goes "reboot, reboot, reboot" " -- Civileme
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