<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Fox <<a href="mailto:dfox94085@gmail.com">dfox94085@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Karl Larsen <<a href="mailto:k5di@zianet.com">k5di@zianet.com</a>> 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? </div>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@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 -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> 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.