On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Fox <
dfox94085@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Karl Larsen <
k5di@zianet.com> wrote:
> The hard drive is a Western Digital, or it says it is. It could be
> Hitachi with that man on it I suppose.
>
> What is AHTI?
I think he means acpi, but I don't see the relevance of the answer to
the question. Might be a cabling issue, you see, so what does acpi
have to do with that?
Mine's a recent (a few weeks old) 500 gb WDC SATA drive.
ox@newbox:~$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc: WDC WD5000AACS-00ZUB0: 38°C
It's a hot::) new WD-5000 something.
So far no problems on this new build. I run the system 24/7.
I did have some problems in the beginning with the bios seeing all the
drives (I have 2 ide's in the system but I don't have them actively in
use, just to bring stuff of if needed). But those just seem to be
cabling issues as it now works fine.
I have heard trouble with various manufacturers of drives in the past,
even WDC and hitachi. FWIW, one of my other drives in the system is a
7+ year old IBM Deskstar 30 (yes the famous Deathstar drive, some of
which were involved in a class action against IBM (or Hitachi) but the
drive is solid w/out any errors.
(crossing fingers now) ;).
>
> Karl
--
My fault...it's not ACHI, it's ACPI.
The reason why I mentioned ACPI it's because I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a Core 2 Duo PC with the P965 intel chipset, a Maxtor 250GB SATA2 HDD, and the install was sucessful, but within 5-6 days that PC caused a lot of errors one of them was that could find the HD, I unplugged off and then plugged back the SATA cables(I even replaced them)but there was intermitent response, then I read in the CentOS maillisting that ACPI was recommended to be used in linux enviroments so I changed in the BIOS the IDE setting to ACPI and did a fresh install again, and guess what, it's been almost a year without any issues regarding HDD errors.
cheers.