Maxtor 80 GB Drives crashing (ERR 664R03) under RH7.3

needamiracle · 06-11-2002, 11:22 AM

Hi All,

Just wanted to see what kind of response this would generate. 2 Maxtor 80 GB drives have crashed reporting error code 664R03 in the past week. I am running RH7.3 ext3 FS. Not doing much I/O yet...mostly just file editting and RH customization/optimization stuff. Same error code on both drives...anyone else experiencing this?

Regards,
needamiracle

sewer_monkey · 06-11-2002, 02:10 PM

Hmmmm... I have a single Maxtor 80GB hard drive under RedHat 7.2 (heh, with all the package upgrading I've been doing lately, it's more like 7.3) working fine so far. I use it as a SAMBA server mostly, transferring pretty big media files to and from it (700+ MB).

WHat exactly gives you this error code? The Maxtor diagnostics software or the Linux kernel? This error code doesn't look like your typical Linux kernel panic message...

needamiracle · 06-11-2002, 02:49 PM

I should have mentioned that...it is a Maxtor error code from the powermax diagnostics disk. I started getting I/O errors from within KDE3.0, I was running opera... I tried a <CTRL><ALT><F1> to toggle to a different terminal, and that is when I received screens of I/O errors...trying to write INODE blah blah blah. That's when I halted the machine and rebooted with the powermax disk.

Did the factory recertification test and got the error.