[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 + Nforce 4 SLI Intel SATA problems

Fri May 4 18:01:20 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On 5/4/07, Kay Diederichs <kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
> Varian,
>
> there is a known problem with Maxtor drives and nForce4 chipsets (and the
> problem appears on other chipsets as well, I see it on Intel 5000X, but less often).
> It can be fixed with a firmware update to the disk; you'll have to send email to
> Maxtor (that's Seagate now) support and they'll send you the firmware back by
> email. The "good" firmware is VA111680, the "bad" VA111630 if I remember correctly.
> This at least applies to 6V250F0 (and other sizes) and probably 7Vxxxxx drives.
>
> HTH,
> Kay
>

Might one be safe to assume that this is a SATA-specific issue?  I
have two PATA Maxtor drives in my home system and have had 0 trouble
with them using an NFORCE4M-A m/b.


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