Re: Strange DMA-errors and system hang with SMART (was: ...and systemhang with Promise 20268)

[Bruce Allen]

> Sorry for my late reply, too. I had been out of country and away from
> Internet.

No problem.

> > I hadn't realized until now that the drive is an IBM GXP60.
> > 
> > smartctl is *supposed* to print a warning message for these drives, to
> > tell users to look at http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/index.html#rel
> > for pointers to updated firmware for this drive!  What firmware version do
> > you have?
> 
> Yes, the warning is there. However, there never had been a problem with
> it for years until I upgraded the kernel. I probably should have paid
> more attention to that warning... The problem is that most of the links
> are broken on the page that you refer to.

Indeed, you are right.  Try this:

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-42215


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