maxtor drive issue

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> You might try the trick I used to solve my Maxtor 80 gig drive problem.
> The drive wouldn't work in ide 2 or 3 but it worked in ide1. So I
> formatted the drive in ide1 and moved it back to ide3, where it seems
> to be happy.

i'm still not convinced that your problem couldn't have been resolved
simply by upgrading LILO and using the lba32 extension.  i think your fix
was a cheap hack, rather than an elegant solution.

> Maybe if someone with a linux boot disk formatted that drive for her,
> it might be usable by SUSE in ide0.

i dont' think that's the problem here.  its not like she's getting an
error that the partition table is unreadable or corrupted. it doesn't seem
to be able to even access the drive.

> As an additional try, you might install Maxtor's EZbios software on
> it. It is easy to remove, I think, if it doesn't do any good.

i can't see how that would improve anything.  Linux has no way of
understanding EZBios.  if anything, its only going to add another variable
and degree of complexity.

i'm still putting my money on dropping the drive to UDMA33 on a legacy IDE
controller.

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