6 Apr
2005
6 Apr
'05
12:42
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 02:11, Clayton wrote:
I've had serious problems with Maxtor and Linux. Whenever I've used a Maxtor drive with Linux in the past 6 years, my message log fills up with a seemingly endless string of "0x51 DriveNotRead SeekComplete Error" and "0x04 DriveStatusError" [snip]
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.