Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:15:02 +0100 From: Axel Simon <A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Harddisk damage by driver? Message-ID: <20020731101502.GE17211@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk>
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Hi, I am very fed up with this rotten computer which seems to break all the harddiscs I put in. The story: The computer is based on an Intel Desktop D815EEA2/D815EPEA2 motherboard. - After five month, the built-in Fujitsu 40 GB UDMA100 drive one day started to make some very loud, repetetive clicking sounds for approximately 3 seconds and was then unresponsive. After some attempts, the harddisc came up again and booted. - The replacement harddrive of the same brand and size did some clicking noises here and then and stalled as well after only three days. I complained louder and got a new Western Digital 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-53CAA0>, UDMA100, a new motherboard and a new cable. - Shortly after that, my second harddrive on the secondary channel 78167MB <Maxtor 98196H8>, DMA33 occasionally made some clicking noises. - It stalled for the first time complitely after a large data transmisson and I decided to ask Maxtor for a replacement. I got a replacement harddrive and replaced the 15cm UDMA100 cable with a 1m UDMA66 cable (so it sais) and attached the harddisk. Funnily, not my old harddrive refuses to work, but my new on exhibits hard read errors, is resetted, removed from configuration and all that. Two possibilities: - This is just unlucky incidence and I need to get a propper UDMA100 cable which is not 1m long. - The FreeBSD drive does not work propperly on this type of motherboard. Should I get an external UDMA controller? I need some help here. Thanks a lot, Axel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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