| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:00:11 +0200 |
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> On Thursday 12 September 2002 12:55 am, Paul wrote: > This is from Linux Journal article > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4247: > > > hacker Andre Hedrick, the maintainer of Linux's IDE driver, tracked > > > a user's problem to the fact that Western Digital drives don't do > > > error checking correctly. He posted to linux-kernel, ``WDC drives > > > blow off the CRC check of UDMA.... This is BAD and STUPID.'' > > > Western Digital fired back on their web site with, ``If there's a On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:34:36AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > fwiw, I have 9 WD drives running that are more than 6 years old and > have been more or less constantly running. I used to have 10, but one > failed a couple of months ago. First to go. No problems whatsoever, > otherwise. Satisfies me. Swell. Note that Andre's talking about CRC checking in UDMA. If your drives are six years old, there's no way they even *know* about UDMA. I don't think LJ was impugning the quality of Western Digital disk itself (though I'll be glad to if you'd like someone to), they're talking about its broken firmware implementation of the CRC checking defined in the UDMA standard. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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