SATA Hard Drives

[Karl Larsen]

Victor Padro wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
    Interesting. I will drop back to BIOS and see if it has a ACPI as a 
choice. Thank you.

Karl


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