From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Dave Gilbert (Home)" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, war <war@lucidpixels.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
apiszcz@solarrain.com
Subject: Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:27:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030611172712.GB31051@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE75FF0.3080702@treblig.org>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:59:28PM +0100, Dave Gilbert (Home) wrote:
> In many cases these drives with the older firmware don't even grace you
> with the benefit of an IDE error; they just give random file system
> corruption. I believe that this was the cause of the problems I was
> reporting here:
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-14/0935.html
>
> after updating the firmware both systems seem to be OK.
>
> So even if you aren't actually seeing these errors, even if you aren't
> using RAID I'd suggest getting this patch.
Where can we obtain these wonderful firmware updates? :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-11 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-11 15:36 war
2003-06-11 15:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-11 16:59 ` Dave Gilbert (Home)
2003-06-11 17:27 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-06-11 17:46 ` war
2003-06-11 18:00 ` Nuno Monteiro
2003-06-11 23:08 ` Brian McGroarty
2003-06-14 4:10 ` Marc Wilson
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