On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:36:29AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
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> The fallback is clearly wrong because it turns isolated media errors
> into pessimized i/o for the whole disk at best, system hangs during
> resets next best, and system crashes at worst. I keep a disk with bad
> media on line for t
Quoting Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote:
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> > At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is
> > "WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0" which doesn't suggest a specific
> > sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 m
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> At present, I don't suspect bad media because the error message is
> "WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0" which doesn't suggest a specific
> sector/track etc, and running with UDMA33 instead of UDMA100 makes the problem
> appear to vanish.
The fallback
Bruce Campbell said:
>
> - try UDMA100 with the drives directly attached (ie. no removable tray) -
> maybe try a non onboard IDE controller
yes I would reccomend a PCI ide controller, such as the Promise ATA/100, or
Promise ATA/66. Also be sure your IDE cables are 18" and not 24" or 32" some
peo
