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Re: Bad WD1.6G? - Kernel Panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Fri Oct 25 13:04:42 1996
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Cc: rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov, mitch@smithphoto.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:39:52 CDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:21:44 -0700
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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By any chance do you have an ASUS motherboard? WD acknowledged some
time ago that they had an incompatibility on the 1.6 eide drives that
was causing them to fail when attached to ASUs mb's. This has been
fixed, but you might have a slightly older release drive without the
fix. I had 4 go bad; they patiently replaced all of them. Then I got
rid of all of them & have only SCSI. Life is good!
Best!
> I fear something is amuck. I have a 3.0.3 install on a 486/66 16MB 32MB
> swap, all on 1 Western Digital 1.6G HD. For the third time now I had a
> kernel panic and was dumped into the repair# prompt, where fsck /dev/hda4
> (/home) cured the problem, at least temporarily.
[snip]
>
> I know this is BAD. What I don't know is if this is a hardware error?
> This drive is a few months old. Will a fresh format fix this?
>
> Each time this happened I was working in /home. The last time I was
> extracting a tar archive and it got to one file and just hung the machine
> with a kernel panic. On reboot it went to repair#. /home is mounted as hda4.
>
> Thanks for any ideas. My 4 other WD drives are flawless for several
> years, that is why I purchased this new 1.6G.
>
> ----------------------------
> Mitchell Leben
> mitch@smithphoto.com
> http://snappy.smithphoto.com/~mitch
> ----------------------------
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