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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 20 Jan 2009 09:35:55
Message: <4975e14a@news.povray.org>
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Is it a SATA drive? Check that the cable is ok.
Those damned SATA cables get loose too easily. It has scared me a couple
of times.
--
- Warp
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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 20 Jan 2009 09:45:12
Message: <4975e378$1@news.povray.org>
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Warp wrote:
> Is it a SATA drive? Check that the cable is ok.
>
> Those damned SATA cables get loose too easily. It has scared me a couple
> of times.
>
Nope. Good old fashioned Parallel ATA. The new one is SATA though. I can
understand how they'd work themselves loose.
--
~Mike
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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 20 Jan 2009 09:47:35
Message: <4975e407$1@news.povray.org>
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Nope. Good old fashioned Parallel ATA. The new one is SATA though. I can
> understand how they'd work themselves loose.
Well, the PATA connectors almost need power tools to remove. The SATA
connectors are much looser.
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From: Phil Cook v2
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 20 Jan 2009 11:29:17
Message: <op.un2detf7mn4jds@phils>
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And lo On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:43:07 -0000, Mike Raiford
<"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:
> Warp wrote:
>> Is it a SATA drive? Check that the cable is ok.
>> Those damned SATA cables get loose too easily. It has scared me a
>> couple
>> of times.
>
> Nope. Good old fashioned Parallel ATA. The new one is SATA though. I can
> understand how they'd work themselves loose.
Well I was going to ask if it was a Barracuda
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/
anyway fair warning to anyone here who runs one.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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From: Mike Hough
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 20 Jan 2009 14:00:57
Message: <49761f69$1@news.povray.org>
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I replaced a Hitachi "Deathstar" with a seagate barracuda. Two of them
actually, and they nearly managed to both fail at the same time in a RAID 1.
Why the seagate? Because at the time seagate has a reputation of making the
best drives. Really can't trust any manufacturer these days.
"Phil Cook v2" <phi### [at] nospamrocain freeservecouk> wrote in message
news:op.un2detf7mn4jds@phils...
> And lo On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:43:07 -0000, Mike Raiford
> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:
>
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Is it a SATA drive? Check that the cable is ok.
>>> Those damned SATA cables get loose too easily. It has scared me a
>>> couple
>>> of times.
>>
>> Nope. Good old fashioned Parallel ATA. The new one is SATA though. I can
>> understand how they'd work themselves loose.
>
> Well I was going to ask if it was a Barracuda
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/
>
> anyway fair warning to anyone here who runs one.
>
> --
> Phil Cook
>
> --
> I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
> http://flipc.blogspot.com
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From: bluetree
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 22 Jan 2009 06:26:12
Message: <497857AD.9010309@yahoo.de>
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Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> And lo On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:43:07 -0000, Mike Raiford
> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:
>
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Is it a SATA drive? Check that the cable is ok.
>>> Those damned SATA cables get loose too easily. It has scared me a
>>> couple
>>> of times.
>>
>> Nope. Good old fashioned Parallel ATA. The new one is SATA though. I
>> can understand how they'd work themselves loose.
>
> Well I was going to ask if it was a Barracuda
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/
>
> anyway fair warning to anyone here who runs one.
>
Has anyone tried the upgrade, yet?
A friend of mine doesn't dare to turn off his computer
until he has saved all important data.
---
bluetree
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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> The drive was just a month short of 5 years old. The motor
> probably died.
I recently had to return a Western Digital HD that only lived a single month...
sudden death of the drive electronics I guess. The BIOS still found the drive,
but wasn't even able to identify it.
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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 23 Jan 2009 13:54:07
Message: <497a124f$1@news.povray.org>
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clipka wrote:
>
> I recently had to return a Western Digital HD that only lived a single month...
> sudden death of the drive electronics I guess. The BIOS still found the drive,
> but wasn't even able to identify it.
>
I can imagine the POST of that machine:
Primary Master...Seagate Barracuda ST320056A
Primary Slave....Something found!
:)
-Aero
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 23 Jan 2009 14:07:20
Message: <497a1568$1@news.povray.org>
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clipka wrote:
> sudden death of the drive electronics I guess. The BIOS still found the drive,
> but wasn't even able to identify it.
It was rather disturbing plugging in my USB HD, getting the little "Dadink!"
sound, waiting a minute or two, and then having it show up as "USB device"
but nothing else. Turns out I'd misplugged the drive, so it wasn't actually
connected to the interface. Interesting effect.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Nothing like a good hard drive crash to get your blood pumping
Date: 23 Jan 2009 14:10:45
Message: <497a1635$1@news.povray.org>
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Darren New wrote:
> clipka wrote:
>> sudden death of the drive electronics I guess. The BIOS still found
>> the drive,
>> but wasn't even able to identify it.
>
> It was rather disturbing plugging in my USB HD, getting the little
> "Dadink!" sound, waiting a minute or two, and then having it show up as
> "USB device" but nothing else. Turns out I'd misplugged the drive, so
> it wasn't actually connected to the interface. Interesting effect.
>
Had that happen after replacing the internal drive, I plugged in my
external, and fired it up, only to have it shut down immediately after.
Turns out the plug wasn't fully seated in the computer's socket.
--
~Mike
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