On Sunday 29 June 2008 05:11:21 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2008-06-29 at 16:34 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
The reason was that 10.3 that was asking too much from old drive and long data transfer overheated electronics, so it started to write garbage on a disk. I didn't found the way to tell 10.3 to slow down and changing BIOS settings (disable UDMA) wasn't regarded. So I tried to rescue files and move them back to original drive. This made situation worse. Drive started clicking and disappeared from the system with majority of files on it.
Perhaps with hdparm: "-d 0" should disable the dma. Or tinkering about you might convince it to use a lower dma setting, I think.
It is not necessary the same case, but the same manufacturer Maxtor may have the same problem on more models. Problem description is so similar. I guess that Jim has some old boxes, so he can do the same I did, or in the worst case install 10.2 just for test. The 10.2 was not using libata, so there is difference in drivers. It can't be worse than it is. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org