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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:48:13 +0100
From: "Axel H. Siebenwirth" <axel@hh59.org>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.3 - (IDE) hda: drive not ready for command errors
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Hi Anton!

On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> I was about to send the drive (IBM 7200rpm 41GiB) back for replacement when 
> I as last resort tried to upgrade the firmware of the drive.
> 
> After the upgrade the drive started working again, fully passed the Drive 
> Fitness Test (IBM utility) and it has been working for a few weeks non-stop 
> in my file server RAID-1 array since then.

The thing is that they come up now, just since I installed 2.5.3. Might
there be a hope that it is a kernel-related issue (new IDE driver...). Drive
has been working fine ever since till now.

Best regards,
Axel Siebenwirth


P.S.: Would like to write to my WinXP NTFS Partition, is there some hope MS
will ever give out exact specs (they don't, do they?) to have write 
funtionality properly implemented? Is there some other way to contribute?
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