[Thinkpad] This is... interesting

[STeve Andre']

Nope, these are all stock pata drives.  The 120G and 160G disks
work just fine in the A31p.  You are right--the new fatter 200,
250 and 300G disks are all SATA sadly, so I think I'm maxed
out on disk size for the A31p.

My question (sorry if I didn't write it reasonably) is how a
disk can hog tie the the IDE system such that a hard reset
is needed to fix things.

STeve Andre'[

On Sunday 04 February 2007 16:45:43 Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> Uh, are these SATA disks? I think most all of the new big ones are, and
> they would not be compatible with an A31
> Also, what is the file system? I don't think you can do FAT32 on a disk
> that size.
> This sounds like an incompatibility. Or it could be a bad drive.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "STeve Andre'" <andres at msu.edu>
> To: <thinkpad at stderr.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 4:25 PM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] This is... interesting
>
> >    I just upgraded my A31p to two 160G seagate disks, from
> > two 120G disks.  In the process of copying all the data from
> > the second 120G disk I started getting disk errors.  Ultimately
> > I got 87G of 97G from that disk, but now I find that I can't
> > have that disk in my system at all.  It locks the system up,
> > and more weirdly, turning the system off and replacing
> > the disk with the new one results in errors on the new disk(!).
> > I've had to take the battery out and wait a few to get the
> > system to reset itself and then everything is OK.
> >
> >    I found the Seatools diagnostic and it locks up after trying
> > to test the bad disk.  It sees the disk geometry OK and all
> > that but locks up as soon as a test occurs.
> >
> >    I'm not too concerned about the data loss, as the important
> > stuff was saved.   But I'm really weirded out that the disk
> > could effect the system across reboots.  Have others seen
> > things like this?
> >
> >    Next will be seeing how hard it is getting a new disk from
> > Seagate. Glad they have a 5 year warranty...
> >
> > --STeve Andre'
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