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>Hard drives</TITLE
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>Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO</TH
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>15. Hard drives</H1
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> All hard drives should work if the controller is supported.
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> Users of large Western Digital IDE hard drives (40GB up to 200GB
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at least) manufactured before 2003-03-25 should look at
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<A
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HREF="http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=913&p_created=1047068027"
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TARGET="_top"
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>this FAQ</A
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for an update that fixes a serious bug in those drives.
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> (From the SCSI HOWTO) All direct access SCSI devices with a
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block size of 256, 512, or 1024 bytes should work. Other block
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sizes will not work (Note that this can often be fixed by changing
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the block and/or sector sizes using the MODE SELECT SCSI
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command).
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> Large IDE (EIDE) drives work fine with newer kernels. The
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boot partition must lie in the first 1024 cylinders due to PC BIOS
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limitations.
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> Some Conner CFP1060S drives may have problems with Linux and
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ext2fs. The symptoms are inode errors during
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<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>e2fsck</TT
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and corrupt file systems. Conner has released a firmware upgrade
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to fix this problem, contact Conner at 1-800-4CONNER (US) or
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+44-1294-315333 (Europe). Have the microcode version (found on
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the drive label, 9WA1.6x) handy when you call.
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> Many Maxtor and Western Digital IDE drives are reported to
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not happily co-exist on the same IDE cable with the other
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manufacturers drive. Usually one of the drives will fail during
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operation. Solution is to put them on different IDE cables.
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> Certain Micropolis drives have problems with Adaptec and
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BusLogic cards, contact the drive manufacturers for firmware
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upgrades if you suspect problems.
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> <P
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> Multiple device driver (RAID-0, RAID-1)
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HREF="ftp://sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/public/Linux/"
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> (driver)</A
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>15.1. Unsupported</H2
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> The following hard drives are mentioned as not supported
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by Linux. Read the bug report available.
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> NEC D3817, D3825, D3827, D3847 "These drives are
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slightly non-SCSI-2 compliant in the values reported in
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Mode Sense Page 3. In Mode Sense Page 3 all NEC D38x7
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drives report their sector size as zero. The NEC drives
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are the first brand of drive we have ever encountered that
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reported the sector size as zero. Unfortunately, that
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field in Mode Sense Page 3 is not modifiable and there is
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no way to update the firmware on the D38x7 drives to
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correct this problem." Problems are mentioned for D3825
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and D3827 (both revision 0407). Revision 0410 of these two
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hard drives seems to solve this problem.
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