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Hi group, |
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A while ago my Maxtor 120G IDE HD started acting up, |
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smartctl wouldn't pass it and in dmesg were many |
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ominous dma_intr errors. |
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So from ebay I got a used Samsung 160g which I just |
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installed. I was hoping to transfer over my OS and |
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files etc to the "new" drive. |
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The drive is recognized in the BIOS on a venerable |
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PIII and assigned Ultra DMA mode 5. But I notice it is |
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recognized as having only 131G. Maybe that's |
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significant. IIRC the PC, a Dell, was put together in |
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01 and the Samsung HD is c. 2004. It's formatted |
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completely FAT32 and mounts OK. |
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Anyway, this is where things get even stranger. I've |
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quadruple-checked and I still don't believe it. The |
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Maxtor drive now PASSES smartctl -H and the "new" one |
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FAILS. The Maxtor still gets the dma_intr errors in |
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dmesg and the Samsung is said to have it's "DMA |
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disabled" which contradicts the BIOS, but no other |
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errors. |
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Can somebody make sense of this? |
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Maxim |
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