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From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
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Subject: Re: ATA problems (still)
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To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@guru.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:38:13 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Keith Mitchell wrote:
> I just tried swapping one of the seagate drives with the WD ATA6 drive 
> so that the WD was aatached to the same motherboard and cable where the 
> segate was happily working and the segate was attached to the same 
> motherboard and cable where the WD wasn't happily working.
> 
> And the result was the same... the seagte is still happily working and 
> the WD drive is crashing the same as it was before.

Hmm so the conclusion seems to be that the WD drive has problems, since
we know the controller works and other large drives works.
I have no idea why it would fail, could be subtle timing I guess ...

If I win the lottery I'll buy one and hack at it :)

-Søren

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