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- From: ed.schlichtenmyer@dwarp.sccsi.com (Ed Schlichtenmyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: IDE disks losing blocks ?
- Message-ID: <1843.452.uupcb@dwarp.sccsi.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:10:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Data Warp Premium BBS - Spring/Houston, TX - 713-355-6107
- Reply-To: ed.schlichtenmyer@dwarp.sccsi.com (Ed Schlichtenmyer)
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- KC>We're running 311 on a 486 with a pair of 200M IDE drives (a Maxtor
- >and a Western Digital). We've only been up about 4 weeks now.
- >The Maxtor has had 7 blocks redirected, and the WD 1. This strikes
- >me as strange, as I thought that IDE drives did internal
- >read-after-write and redirection, transparent to the drive-user.
- >Any comments?
-
- KC>Could this possibly be related to a "lost hardware interrupt"
- >problem that we still haven't managed to resolve?
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- Have you used IDE386.ZIP? If not, you really ought to. The file can be
- found on Netwire.
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