Re: Disk Hardware Problem

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From: ALAN PAUL CHAPMAN
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00

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In article <32F1E56C.6616A7E1@shawc.demon.co.uk>,
Shaw Carruthers  <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Recently I have been getting warnings of the following type referring to
>my 2nd IDE drive:
>
>Jan 31 12:14:44 shawc linux: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady 
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
>
It doesn't happen to a Western Digital HDD does it? Mine did exactly the 
same recently. 

For some of the WD drives there is a firmware upgrade available on their 
website (http://www.wdc.com/). This corrects a problem with the error 
correction code built into the drive.

Alan.
apc95@aber.ac.uk
alan@welsh-cob.cix.co.uk

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From: apc95@aber.ac.uk (ALAN PAUL CHAPMAN)
Subject: Re: Disk Hardware Problem
Date: 1997/01/31
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