Re: hard disk problems

Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:37:10 +0100


Goran Gajic wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Andre M. Hedrick wrote:
>
> >
> > Who in the world did your LBA/CHS translation?
> > Have you got some thing from hdparm to report or will it?
> >
> > Call "hdparm -i /dev/hdc" or "hdparm -I /dev/hdc" and send me the mess.
> >
> > If it is truly screwy, I will pass it on to one of the design engineers at
> > Quantum HQ.

Should not be a disk problem... dmesg says so here:
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A, 4110MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA

>
> Here it is:
> osmeh-Wed16-11:29am~# hdparm -i /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
>
> Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A, FwRev=API.0A00, SerialNo=63473232
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=14848/9/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=512, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=80kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
> CurCHS=14848/9/63, CurSects=8418816, LBA=yes, LBAsects=8418816
> tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1 mword2
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4

Apparently identical to mine...

[root@dogbert /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A, FwRev=API.0A00, SerialNo=33473021
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=14848/9/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=512, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=80kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=14848/9/63, CurSects=8418816, LBA=yes, LBAsects=8418816
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4

As for Rik's comments about overclocking, my QDI Titanium IB (TX430)
can get the bus to 75Mhz and have no disk problems. Pity my SDRAM
seems to, as my AMD K6 200 gets sig11's even at 210Mhz, let alone
moving to 225 (plenty of trouble) or 233 (X crashes).
No disk problems though...

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

Linux 2.0.36/2.1.131 glibc-2.0.7-29 gcc-2.8.1 binutils-2.9.1.0.15

"I hate bugs which disappear just as soon as you start trying to
narrow things down." -- Stephen Tweedie

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