Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:12:55 PST
> was wondering if Linux gets along with a 213 Mb Maxtor Hd.
>
>
The Maxtor 7213a 213MB hd USED to have problems with non-msdos operating
systems. They have since upgraded the PROMS so that the problems are gone.
Since I still have the old prom version I don't know for sure that it works,
but Maxtor assured me that it does. (They are making me mail return my entire
hard drive for the PROM upgrade! Sucky policy but anyway..) If you want to be
safe when purchasing the drive, on the top side of it there is a label. In the
PCBA column is listed your PROM version. Make sure that the verion is at least
63 something. Mine is 52p1 if that helps any.
Luckily even though it does have problems they are not such that the
drive had any data loss (That I've noticed yet anyway..) During any drive
operation there are random occurances of "HD Timeout. Reseting HD" or something
like that. It take about 10-20 seconds per timeout and I've gotten as many as a
dozen while starting X windows. Quite annoying, but still usable.
Hope this helps.
Bill Foust
Foustwf@Rosevc.Rose-Hulman.edu
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Subject: Maxtor
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:55:25 PST
Well I have a brand new Maxtor 7213 IDE hard drive. It works great. I
am running a DOS partition and a Linux partition, and have had NO
problems period. I have not looked to see what the number on my
prom is, but then I haven't had any reason to. I think it is a great
drive, and very well priced. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Subject: Re: MAXTOR
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:58:18 PST
I posted a question about installing dos, os2 and linux on combinations of
maxtor 7213A (210MB) and seagate 1144A. I called tech support at both
maxtor and seagate and here are the answer I got:
maxtor: the two drives are incompatible and therefore should be used together.
sometimes putting the maxtor as slave might work.
seagate: the incompatibility is dued to the difference in timings in both
drives (after I told the guy I was using the drive with a
maxtor, he begin to sound pretty rude, just for your info.)
So I decide to sell my seagate and get a maxtor 120MB drive.
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:56:01 PST
OK, perhaps I should have remembered that discussion about the Maxtor 7213
and Linux, but I thought the problem only persisted with the early PROMs.
Anyway, here's the problem...
I just got a nice shiny new Maxtor (the PROM revision is 65a I think)
that is configured as the slave of two drives (wouldn't work as the
master with my old Kyocera KC40GA drive). I have a 100M DOS partition
and I wanted to use the rest of the disk for Linux. I grabbed the SLS
distribution and with my 28 floppies in hand started to install...
I've partitioned the remainder of the disk as:
16M /dev/hdb1 swap
16M /dev/hdb2 /tmp
/dev/hdb3 extended partition
26M /dev/hdb5 /
44M /dev/hdb6 /usr
The install seems to work except I couldn't run mkefs on any of the
partitions (mkswap seems to work, although I haven't really tried
exercising the virtual memory). I keep getting the error:
HD: write_intr: drive status = 0x51
HD: write_intr: error no = 0x10
I checked and the status is (READY_STAT | SEEK_STAT | ERR_STAT)
and the error no is ID_ERR.
If I use mkfs instead, the partition seems OK but after copying files onto
it, e.g.
# mkfs /dev/hdb6 num-blocks
# mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt
# cp -R /usr /mnt
# umount /dev/hdb6
# fsck /dev/hdb6
The fsck gives heaps of errors about incorrect zones, files cross-linked,
and generally the entire file system is wrecked.
I've gotten Linux installed on a 22M partition on my Kyocera drive and its
working fine. I've tried building new kernels with all sorts of tweaks
in the blk_drvs/hd.c but all to no avail.
Can anyone help me :-(
Deryck
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