Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 10:02:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 10:02:03 -0400 Received: from 62-190-217-197.pdu.pipex.net ([62.190.217.197]:47621 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 10:02:02 -0400 From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com Message-Id: <200209081414.g88EELZK002695@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: ide drive dying? To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 15:14:20 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: from "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" at Sep 08, 2002 10:56:24 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1052 Lines: 22 > >The firmware update is for many more drives than that, My own > > > Model=IBM-DTLA-305040, FwRev=TW4OA60A > > >is also recommended, as well as many with a FwRev=xxxOyzzz with zzz<66A. > >Now i have to find a windows machine to try it out on... > > You don't need to. All you need is someone run this tool and send you > the image it creates. I put mine as boot.img on a CD so I can upgrade > all the disks I have in boxes without floppy disk drives. It's a self > booting DOS disk. As the old firmware is known to be buggy, and those bugs are relevant when using Linux, and updated firmware is available, is it worth checking for the known buggy firmware version in the ide driver? I realise that we cannot check every drive in the world for compatibility, but if this is a known issue... John. - 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/