From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:40:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:40:20 -0400 Received: from mx3.port.ru ([194.67.57.13]:53769 "EHLO mx3.port.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:40:12 -0400 From: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Howl of soul... Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: [195.34.27.172] Reply-To: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:40:27 +0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org dear people! Sorry for OT, but i want only good to you, lkml people... If you are to buy a new ide drive, do not buy recent IBM 7200 drives!!! The story begins when at February of this year i`ve bought perfectly shining ever-fast IBM DTLA-307045... After 3 months i`ve hardly regreted about such decision: drive started to covers himself with a thick layer of logical-not-physical badblocks (ie lowlevel reformat doesnt show anything). So i went to storagereview and lerned about the matter. As i found, these drives had an internal controller bug. So i said okay, while restoring 3rd time my reiserfs and dumping data to spare drive, and went to replace the drive to perfectly new and shining IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 also known as 60GXP. Now i`am heavily punished for that. Badblocks are reapperaing on runtime. After they appeared first time i`ve attached large fan to the drive, so it was cold(!) to touch. Also i stopped to transport the drive between boxes. Nevertheless these fscking logical badblocks appeared again twice. The fact is, that we had bought these drives with my friend synchronusly, and now he owns quantum drive, after 75gxp and 60gxp... Ofcourse he had similar problems.... (btw he use windoze) I am _tired_ fixing my poor reiserfs root partition. I can say that now i`am expert on how to restore badblocked reiserfs partiotions... ;( Beware. --- cheers, Samium Gromoff