Just as a side note, and you may have thought of this already, so if you
have just tell me to shut up! lol
But I know that Western Digital has a really good warranty plan. If the
drive is still with in warranty, send that sucker back! RMA the drive,
get another one! I know for something like that, if it happens twice to
a Western Digital, they're take it back. Send another one and it's
"FREE." (They actually make you buy the drive, and once they get the
old drive, they refund you 100% of the drive they replaced it with.)
I've done that many times, one reason why I only go with Western Digital
drives.
tdh
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* goldenpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010218 08:39]:
> Sounds like its going. You can keep it, but backup frequently.
>
> oh, run fsck on all partitions. Run scandisk through on all fat partitions.
> Scan it well.
>
> Quantum fireball. I got one of those :(
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:13 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Bad Scare! Hard drive jumped from case into trash bin.
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Well not quite, but is sure sounded like it was trying to escape!
> >
> > I was running netscape with several windows open (probably not hitting
> swap)
> > and suddenly the normal brrrrrrrp brrrp type sounds that comes from my
> hard
> > drive chaged to a loud and alarming RRRRRRRIP WHAK RRRRRRRRIP WHAK this
> cycle
> > repeated from about 25 seconds. The system was pretty well locked up at
> this
> > point, I could move the mouse but KDE was locked tight. I hit the reset
> > switch and then after the bios screen I got a message that the HD was not
> > ready and that I should insert a floppy if I wanted to boot. :-( Didn't
> want
> > to do that so I hit the power switch and let the thing sit for a minute
> then
> > tried it again. This time the system came up normally, fsck made some
> > repairs, but it didn't seem like it did anything more than it has on a
> couple
> > of other occassions after the power has gone out unexpectedly. Anyhow, I
> am
> > using the system now and it seems fine.
> >
> > Any ideas what could have caused this? Is my new hard drive on the fast
> track
> > to the trash heap? Or could I have simply hit a nasty bug is some bit of
> > software and it through my drive into convulsions?
> >
> > BTW I did backup my data and some config files.
> >
> > The drive: 30GB EIDE ULTRA-ATA 66 3.5LP QUANTUM FIREBALL Plus LM
> >
> > [root@crank david]# hdparm /dev/hda
> > /dev/hda:
> > multcount = 16 (on)
> > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> > unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> > using_dma = 1 (on)
> > keepsettings = 0 (off)
> > nowerr = 0 (off)
> > readonly = 0 (off)
> > readahead = 8 (on)
> > geometry = 3649/255/63, sectors = 58633344, start = 0
> >
> > Thanks Much
> > David Nelson
