[ltp] TP600X disc problem

[Jed Diem]

I had the same problem running Win 98 and RedHat 7.3 on a 600X.  This 
happened in text mode as well as when running X11. Keeping the bios up 
to date seemed to make the problem less frequent but it never went away.

I now run Debian woody by itself on the 600X and don't have the problem 
in text mode.  Every now and then the keyboard freezes when in X11 but I 
sense that it's X11 not the disk.

Conclusion: the problem is due to the dual booting or maybe Debian is 
better than RedHat.  Since I really like the 600X, I bought a second 
hard drive on which I run Debian and swap it out with a Win 2000 disk 
when I really need Windows.  I've also inceased memory to 384 MB.

Good luck,

--jed diem



Marek Pawelec wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I use TP600X dual boot with RH9 (earlier 7.3) and win 98 on 12 GB
>Hitachi hd. While I don't have any problems with it running windows,
>there is one problem with linux.
>
>The problem is, my hd sometimes stops (I can hear that). If it happens
>under linux, the machine freezes, and all I can do is hard reset (even
>power-off doesn't work). I suspect that this has something to do with
>the hd settings(power management?), but I'm affraid to mess with that. 
>Can anyone suggest better settings? 
>
>Below is the output of hdparm -I 
>
>/dev/hda:
>
>ATA device, with non-removable media
>	Model Number:       HITACHI_DK23AA-12B                      
>	Serial Number:      H83490
>	Firmware Revision:  00XDA0B6
>Standards:
>	Used: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1 
>	Supported: 5 4 3 2 
>Configuration:
>	Logical		max	current
>	cylinders	16383	16383
>	heads		15	15
>	sectors/track	63	63
>	--
>	CHS current addressable sectors:   15481935
>	LBA    user addressable sectors:   23572080
>	device size with M = 1024*1024:       11509 MBytes
>	device size with M = 1000*1000:       12068 MBytes (12 GB)
>Capabilities:
>	LBA, IORDY(cannot be disabled)
>	bytes avail on r/w long: 4	Queue depth: 1
>	Standby timer values: spec'd by Vendor, no device specific minimum
>	R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16	Current = 16
>	Advanced power management level: 159 (0x9f)
>	DMA: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 
>	     Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
>	PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
>	     Cycle time: no flow control=400ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
>Commands/features:
>	Enabled	Supported:
>	   *	READ BUFFER cmd
>	   *	WRITE BUFFER cmd
>	   *	Host Protected Area feature set
>	   *	Look-ahead
>	   *	Write cache
>	   *	Power Management feature set
>		Security Mode feature set
>	   *	SMART feature set
>		Address Offset Reserved Area Boot
>	   *	Advanced Power Management feature set
>Security: 
>	Master password revision code = 65534
>		supported
>	not	enabled
>	not	locked
>		frozen
>	not	expired: security count
>		supported: enhanced erase
>	22min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 22min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
>HW reset results:
>	CBLID- above Vih
>	Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
>Checksum: correct
>  
>