Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263246AbTFKRNa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:13:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263275AbTFKRNa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:13:30 -0400 Received: from host-64-213-145-173.atlantasolutions.com ([64.213.145.173]:27603 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263246AbTFKRN3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:13:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:27:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: "Dave Gilbert (Home)" Cc: Alan Cox , war , Linux Kernel Mailing List , apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX Message-ID: <20030611172712.GB31051@gtf.org> References: <1055346538.2420.3.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3EE75FF0.3080702@treblig.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE75FF0.3080702@treblig.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 24 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:59:28PM +0100, Dave Gilbert (Home) wrote: > In many cases these drives with the older firmware don't even grace you > with the benefit of an IDE error; they just give random file system > corruption. I believe that this was the cause of the problems I was > reporting here: > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-14/0935.html > > after updating the firmware both systems seem to be OK. > > So even if you aren't actually seeing these errors, even if you aren't > using RAID I'd suggest getting this patch. Where can we obtain these wonderful firmware updates? :) Jeff - 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/