Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 12:27:12 EST


On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:59:28PM +0100, Dave Gilbert (Home) wrote:
> In many cases these drives with the older firmware don't even grace you
> with the benefit of an IDE error; they just give random file system
> corruption. I believe that this was the cause of the problems I was
> reporting here:
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-14/0935.html
>
> after updating the firmware both systems seem to be OK.
>
> So even if you aren't actually seeing these errors, even if you aren't
> using RAID I'd suggest getting this patch.

Where can we obtain these wonderful firmware updates? :)

        Jeff

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