[wellylug] new hard disk problems

Centurion Computer Technology Ltd daniel at centurion.net.nz
Mon Jun 21 10:21:12 NZST 2004


> Is there an issue with Western Digital?

No, from all accounts any WD disks greater that 20Gb are great disks,
but they don't fully implement the IDE protocol in the area of CRC
checksums.  This is a non issue with linux now but caused problems a few
years ago.

It seems this problem is probably more of an issue with the via 8233
chipset no being able to handle 48 bit LBA addressing properly.

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