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In article <i8jjhsct1t3pnuiki1e3rf92f3nqgl3dnp@4ax.com>, John Perry
<JohnPerry@redoak.co.ukNOSPAM> writes
>A few months ago there was a report of Maxtor 40GB drives locking up,
>and I do not recall if/how the problem was solved.
>
>We have two of the 5400 40.9GB Maxtors on an ABIT BE-6-II MB UDMA66
>connector, and the problem is that when copying 50MB+ chunks of data
>through the network, the machine locks up (the keyboard does not operate
>and the drives are unavailable through the network).  This problem
>happens on both master and slave drives.
>
>I believe the Maxtors are the problem as when I had an IBM 37GB drive on
>the same cable, I never had the lock-ups.
>
>I'm running Win98SE with NO cylinder limit jumper.
>
>If anyone else has had this problem, and knows the solution to the
>lock-ups, I'd much appreciate the tip.
>
>posted to uk.computer.vendors (where problem was reported) and
>demon.tech.pc where the sages are.

I'm running a Linux (SuSE 6.3) server with one of those 40Gb Maxtor
drives. We have been copying 3Gb of data to it every night for four
weeks now. There have been no problems at all, not even any transient
ones. The motherboard on that machine uses UDMA33 not 66. If there
really is a problem then it's either OS dependent or it only affects
UDMA66 configurations.





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