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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:01:34 -0800
From: David Rees <dbr@greenhydrant.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE error on 2.4.17
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:50:15PM -0000, Simon Turvey wrote:
> The drive's less than a year old :-(
> 
> Should I try disabling some of the UDMA stuff?

Age of the disk doesn't matter, they'll die at any age.  They seem to die
most frequently either within one year, or after 3 years.

Turning off UDMA probably won't help, it looks like it's time to restore
from backups.  If you try to recover data from the disk, make sure you mount
it in read-only mode if you can get the drive that far up if you reboot.

-Dave
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