On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 20:35:42 Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 08:15:02PM +0000, Steve Tooke wrote:
> > hdb: ST34321A, 4103MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=8894/15/63
>
> THIS is interesting.
>
> We had same problems with two absolutely different machines, both equipped
with
> a single Seagate ST34311A drive. Different mainboards, different kernels
(2.2
> series), different eth hardware (RealTek and 3c905B), both non-SMP.
That is interesting I hadn't noticed the sme drives... but I've only had
problems with the 2.3.41 kernel... and my box is SMP. Look at some of
my earlier posts for the full details.
>
> I once traced this down in the IDE driver (see archives for the thread) and
it
> was about a timeout giving the drive time to report activity completion to
the
> driver. If I raised the timeout, errors got fewer.
>
> This seems to be a problem with ST343* series. Can anyone confirm, that this
> drive is a common denominator to the story?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
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