Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX

[Jeff Garzik]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:59:28PM +0100, Dave Gilbert (Home) wrote:
> In many cases these drives with the older firmware don't even grace you 
> with the benefit of an IDE error; they just give random file system 
> corruption.  I believe that this was the cause of the problems I was 
> reporting here:
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-14/0935.html
> 
> after updating the firmware both systems seem to be OK.
> 
> So even if you aren't actually seeing these errors, even if you aren't 
> using RAID I'd suggest getting this patch.

Where can we obtain these wonderful firmware updates?  :)

	Jeff