Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 05:25:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 05:25:22 -0400 Received: from cpe.atm2-0-1071115.0x50c4d862.boanxx10.customer.tele.dk ([80.196.216.98]:6537 "EHLO marvin.athome.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 05:25:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3D79C719.8020706@fugmann.dhs.org> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 11:30:01 +0200 From: Anders Fugmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020615 Debian/1.0.0-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DevilKin Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ide drive dying? References: <200209061722.g86HMuPp004452@darkstar.example.net> <200209062122.31597.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 24 DevilKin wrote: > Luckely I've been able to backup everything from the disk, and I'm running the > DFT now. The tests showed bad sectors, i'm currently running a disk erase. I have had sucess in firmware-upgrading these drives, after which all problems were gone forever. You can download the firmware programs from http://anders.fugmann.dhs.org/ibm. There are both upgrade for 75GXP and 60GXP, or you could contact IBM for the firmware upgrade - They are not available on the ibm site. The programs are Windows thingies, which creates a floppy to be booted. Regards Anders Fugmann - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/