> There were bugs in the timeout handling in the aic7xxx driver and there
> were also timing bugs that caused timeouts to occur that shouldn't have.
> Most likely the problem was from a bug, not failing media especially
> if there was success in using another controller with that drive.

That's encouraging news, since I bought the drive new only a few
months before I started experiencing the problems I mentioned.   :')

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