I'm having trouble installing Linux and several people suggested it had
something to do with my WD IDE drives and EZ-drive software.Is that
true?
Paul
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, John Heil wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Gary Vinson wrote:
> >
> > > We have lost one Western Digital Caviar 31600 (1.6GB) IDE drive and
> > > one WD Caviar (700MB) IDE drive. Now, when I say lost, I mean that when
> > > the system is rebooted, the disk sounds like it is physcially broke. There
> > > is a periodic clanging noise, as if one of the drive components is
> > > actually damaged. At this point, we don't get past the BIOS.
> > >
> > > These two drives ran for approximately one month each
> > > before dieing. Prior to this, we noticed in our system messages:
> > >
> > > kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x4b { DriveRead DataRequest Index Error }
> > > " " read_intr: error=0x04 { Drive Status Error}
> > > " ide0: do_ide_reset: success
> > [snipped]
>
> I had the same problem on a 21000 (1Gb). Sent it back to the supplier,
> they replaced the disks software and did a new low level format. Had no
> trouble since. There have been problems with a few series of WD drives
> that require a replacement of the drive's software. You can download a fix
> from www.wdc.com
>
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