hard disk I/O error fixed only by hdparm -W0 - any clues?

[John Wendel]

VJ wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have a seagate hard disk with 8Mb cache. I get hard disk sector
> I/O errors but those are easily fixed by using hdparm -W0 on the disk.
> Running smart tools does not give any error. Is it because linux
> kernel cannot cope with this cache or what? This disk works perfectly
> under windoes XP though (I removed Fedora and installed XP).
> 
> Regards from
> VJ
> 

I've got 3 seagates with 8MB caches, no problems here.

Maybe you could post more details, like the error messages, the output 
of hdparm -i -I -v, and your system configuration. Of course this may be 
difficult if you removed Fedora and installed XP.

Regards,

John