SATA Hard Drives

[Victor Padro]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> >    The hard drive is a Western Digital, or it says it is. It could be
> > Hitachi with that man on it I suppose.
> >
>
> > What is AHTI?
>
> I think he means acpi, but I don't see the relevance of the answer to
> the question. Might be a cabling issue, you see, so what does acpi
> have to do with that?
>
> Mine's a recent (a few weeks old) 500 gb WDC SATA drive.
>
> ox at newbox:~$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sdc
> /dev/sdc: WDC WD5000AACS-00ZUB0: 38°C
>
> It's a hot::) new WD-5000 something.
>
> So far no problems on this new build. I run the system 24/7.
>
> I did have some problems in the beginning with the bios seeing all the
> drives (I have 2 ide's in the system but I don't have them actively in
> use, just to bring stuff of if needed). But those just seem to be
> cabling issues as it now works fine.
>
> I have heard trouble with various manufacturers of drives in the past,
> even WDC and hitachi. FWIW, one of my other drives in the system is a
> 7+ year old IBM Deskstar 30 (yes the famous Deathstar drive, some of
> which were involved in a class action against IBM (or Hitachi) but the
> drive is solid w/out any errors.
>
> (crossing fingers now) ;).
>
>
>
> >
> > Karl
>
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My fault...it's not ACHI, it's ACPI.

The reason why I mentioned ACPI it's because I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a
Core 2 Duo PC with the P965 intel chipset, a Maxtor 250GB SATA2 HDD, and the
install was sucessful, but within 5-6 days that PC caused a lot of errors
one of them was that could find the HD, I unplugged off and then plugged
back the SATA cables(I even replaced them)but there was intermitent
response, then I read in the CentOS maillisting that ACPI was recommended to
be used in linux enviroments so I changed in the BIOS the IDE setting to
ACPI and did a fresh install again, and guess what, it's been almost a year
without any issues regarding HDD errors.

cheers.
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