[ale] hard drive won't mount

[Jim Philips]

Just an update: I tried booting from my old 2.4.17 boot disk and voila! fsck 
ran to completion without errors!! I am now working from my Linux partition 
again. But I understand I am probably living on borrowed time. This seeming 
success may be just a fluke. One symptom of my hard drive's woes is that it 
seems to run better the longer it is up. It only gets flaky when it has been 
booted recently. But the longer it stays up, the more stable it is. This may 
be related to the temperature of the circuits inside. I don't know.

On Thursday 20 June 2002 12:48 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> That is a bad drive error. The reason that it worked OK under the other,
> older systems was the IDE interface was not as fast as it is now. The
> current IDE drivers expect the hardware to perform as it is rated. CRC
> errors are indicative of a hardware problem. The data did not get
> written to drive properly. Throw out the drive.
>
> There was a drive (manufacturer escapes me) that _disabled_ the CRC in
> order to get faster writes. Thet drive required special drivers for
> windows and constantly failed in all Linux boxes until the "feature" was
> discovered and disabled.


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