From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: kelleycook@wideopenwest.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: IBM^H^H^HHitachi disk tools (was Re: Disabling ATAPI retry?)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:18:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030308211859.GA32725@ip68-101-124-193.oc.oc.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046991672.17715.134.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:01:12PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> There isn't. You can always build a kernel set not to, but even then it
> takes the drive firmware a sizeable time to retry a block. If its an IBM
> you might want to try the ibm tools on them if you can get them. They
> seem to have vanished from the face of the earth when IBM dumped its disk
> business
Actually, IBM dumped its disk business to Hitachi, and that's where the
tools went too:
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
They say "HITACHI" instead of "IBM" but otherwise they're the same tools
with the same user interface and same functionality.
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-08 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-06 20:58 Disabling ATAPI retry? kelleycook
2003-03-06 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-07 4:08 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-03-07 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 21:18 ` Barry K. Nathan [this message]
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