Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:44:04 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> Subject: Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED Message-ID: <41FFA3C4.8050201@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <41EF22F0.7010009@errno.com> References: <20050119151301.A22310@Denninger.Net> <8eea040805011913334b140af6@mail.gmail.com> <8eea04080501191506237fc762@mail.gmail.com> <20050119171504.A23623@Denninger.Net> <41EF22F0.7010009@errno.com>
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Sam Leffler wrote: > I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've > already RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was > DOA, the rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking > up the machine). These were all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 > 160GB Serial ATA drives. After testing for power, cables, disk > controller, motherboard, and other potential reasons I've decided the > drives were just faulty and have switched to another vendor. I have a pair of 6Y200M0 drives in my machine. They absolutely _hated_ the SiI 3112 controller I had them on (the one built-in on the motherboard). Lots of timeouts and the occasional untraceable random lockup. I moved them over to a Promise SATA controller and they seem much happier.
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