Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:18:59 -0800 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | IBM^H^H^HHitachi disk tools (was Re: Disabling ATAPI retry?) |
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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.
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