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From: Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:13:35
Message-Id: 5A556B8D61355043BCC13726CED51868A14FB1@msgprdmbxw002.optus.com.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness by maxim wexler
1 > Anyway, this is where things get even stranger. I've
2 > quadruple-checked and I still don't believe it. The
3 > Maxtor drive now PASSES smartctl -H and the "new" one
4 > FAILS. The Maxtor still gets the dma_intr errors in
5 > dmesg and the Samsung is said to have it's "DMA
6 > disabled" which contradicts the BIOS, but no other
7 > errors.
8 >
9 > Can somebody make sense of this?
10
11 Bad cable?
12
13 Re: the 131 size - can the motherboard BIOS cope with drives larger that
14 128Gig?
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