I ran into an interesting (more like terrifying) problem with a Maxtor 80
gig D740X-6L drive. The drive has been in service for perhaps 9 months.
Within the last couple of weeks I noticed that the system, running Win2k
Pro, was taking longer to boot. I reviewed the event log and found that at
the
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 12:36, Hewitt Tech wrote:
What are other people's experiences with these drives? The drive does not
overheat AFAIK, but I do notice that the problem is more pronounced at
system startup then after the system has been running for a while.
It does happen and it's not
any data on there and do a low level format to
rebuild the bad block tables.
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From: Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Hard drive needs low-level format
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:19, Hewitt Tech wrote:
That's why I mirrored the disk and replaced it but I have a very uneasy
feeling about the durability of the drive. I'm quite unimpressed with having
to do this with an ostensibly new technology ATA drive.
I wouldn't worry to much, just re-format
