Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263338AbTFKRcZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:32:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263355AbTFKRcZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:32:25 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:2959 "HELO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263338AbTFKRcV (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:32:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:46:04 -0400 (EDT) From: war X-X-Sender: war@p500 To: Jeff Garzik cc: "Dave Gilbert (Home)" , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX In-Reply-To: <20030611172712.GB31051@gtf.org> Message-ID: References: <1055346538.2420.3.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3EE75FF0.3080702@treblig.org> <20030611172712.GB31051@gtf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1275 Lines: 41 It appears as if that site is having problems. http://www.warp2search.net/ I don't recall the URL directly to the file, but I still have the file, I've made it availible here: http://66.93.105.220/~war/wd_cfg.zip (144KiB) http://209.81.41.149/~war/wd_cfg.zip (144KiB) $ md5sum wd_cfg.zip ca3bfc92364e607ef04a1fbe3dba76c0 wd_cfg.zip On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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/