Re: [newbie] Bad Scare! Hard drive jumped from case into trash bin.
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 -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * 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 brrrp brrrp type sounds that comes from my hard drive chaged to a loud and alarming RRRIP WHAK IP 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
Re: [newbie] Bad Scare! Hard drive jumped from case into trash bin.
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 brrrp brrrp type sounds that comes from my hard drive chaged to a loud and alarming RRRIP WHAK IP 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
[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 brrrp brrrp type sounds that comes from my hard drive chaged to a loud and alarming RRRIP WHAK IP 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
