Re: wd error on macppc

["Sean Kennedy" <woodentulip@hotmail.com>]

>Subject: Re: wd error on macppc >> 	i get a lot of device timeouts with 
>recent kernel (macppc, iBook 2002
> >> 	summer).  sector number varies time to time.  machine locks up
> >> 	while showing those errors.  any clues?
> >Can you show
> >atactl wd0 smartreadlog summary
> >output?
>	looks like harddisk in my ibook have died.  (it no longer boots)
>	need to call apple for repairment...
>itojun


Itojun: I suffered a similar fate with a 4 Gig IBM ata laptop disk on my 
PII, Similar errors while OpenBSD was booting, and then Bang, it died.
I wiped the disk and ran a multi-pass formatter, and installed TurboLinux on 
it, only to have it fry within two months. Similar errors during boot.

The disk itself was known to have problems in the 380Z Laptops. While 
working it would sit there and go "CLUNK" and IBM tech support said that it 
was Firmware on the disk.

I bought a 40GB disk and have no problems now.

-sean


#!/usr/local/bin/skennedy/sh
sleep 4800;
make clean && make breakfast

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