From: Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@inet6.fr>
To: rtilley <rtilley@vt.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Failure
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:09:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030127120925.A9581@bouton.inet6-interne.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E3B3FF0@zathras>; from rtilley@vt.edu on dim, jan 26, 2003 at 09:33:11 -0500
On dim, jan 26, 2003 at 09:33:11 -0500, rtilley wrote:
> Is it still possible for software to damage hardware in this fashion or is
> hardware smarter now? Do drives know not to try and access a cylinder that is
> outside their physical limits?
>
I guess not :
Recently I moved one drive from one old system to a new one. The new BIOS
couldn't be configured to use the old geometry -> I couldn't use the drive
to boot (unless repartitioning the 120GiB beast).
During the migration process I tried different geometry settings and at
several times the cylinder number was way above the drive's actual limit.
I could hear loud "bumps" when the drive accessed the higher cylinders.
Each time I rushed to the reset button...
This was with a SiS735 chipset and a Maxtor 4G120J6.
LB.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-27 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-27 2:33 rtilley
2003-01-27 11:09 ` Lionel Bouton [this message]
2003-01-27 19:56 ` John Bradford
2003-01-27 21:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301242353230.14696-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-27 1:36 ` Arindam Dey
2003-01-27 19:58 ` John Bradford
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2003-01-25 0:59 Arindam Dey
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