Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Matt Gibson <gothick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 Apr 2005 13:42 pm, you wrote:
> I was seeing the exact same thing happen in SusE 9.1 with a Seagate drive.
>  As it turned out it was a ATA133 drive that I had hooked up as a slave on
> a ATA100 cable.  In spite of the apparent "errors" I was not losing any
> data, so I ignored it.  When I rebuilt the system I used that drive as a
> master with the proper cable and the problem went away.

Just a quick tip:  If you're ever in that situation again, you can download a 
utility from Seagate that lets you tell the drive to run at a different 
maximum speed.  Just runs off a bootable DOS floppy and lets you change some 
of the drive's parameters which are stored in non-volatile RAM somewhere, so 
you only have to do it once and it remembers the setting until you change it 
back.

See the "Ultra ATA Mode Switching Utility" description here:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

Cheers,

Matt

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