Maxtor Fireball 3 hard disk

#1 buk

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Posted 12 February 2003 - 05:26 PM

Hello,

I had a Maxtor Fireball 3 hard disk running well for approximately 3 moths installed with SuSE 8.1 and, in the past week, I could notice the system was hanging every 20-30 seconds and dmesg displayed a time out error and IDE0 was being successfully reset several times.

Does any one know if this hard disk has some incompatibility with Linux or if it is necessary to do some fine tuning, let's say, adjust the BIOS to enable S.M.A.R.T capability and/or Ultra DMA?

Thanks a lot,

#2 gfolkert

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Posted 12 February 2003 - 10:18 PM

No really, when IDE0 is starting to time out and being reset every 20-30 seconds... I'd backup yur crud and RMA that puppy... in a heart beat.

Linux handles Disk failure alot better than Windows in the regard. If you have Dual booted Linux and Windows... Windows will take a dump too... when it really goes.

Linux just tells you about it more often and more informatively...

All, in all, RMA that Drive before the Warranty from Maxtor runs out on it....