From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 8:44:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BD837B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 08:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct-hartford-us243.javanet.com ([209.150.34.96]) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13gUF2-0000JE-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:44:28 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: Re: install from 4.1 CDROM failed Cc: Jimmy Thomson Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:44:28 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:20 PM -0500 10/02/00, Jimmy Thomson wrote: > >> Thanx!! I ran Scandisk before, but I did it again, and it still didn't >> find anything wrong. >> >> >Typically a harddrive warranty runs from the date of manufacture which >> >should be on the drive's paper label, 3 years for IDE and 5 years for >> >SCSI. Contact the manufacturer and he will give you a number and address >> >to return it for free warranty replacement. >> >> This drive was given to me, so I cannot return it to the manufacturer. >> Then again, I don't have any evidence that the disk is bad. Is there any >> other way to solve the problem?? Can I use the 3.4 installer to create >>>> the partition and then use the 4.1 installer?? > >What type of drive is it? Thank you for your response. It's a 3G Western Digital. >Many manufacturers have utilities to detect problems with their drives. >There may not be anything wrong with the actual drive platter, it could be >>something odd like the drive has bad cache in it. > >Just because the drive was given to you doesn't mean you can't RMA it. I >have found that most drive manufacturers don't even ask for proof of >purchase. Before I even consider sending the drive back to the manufacturer, and losing my Windows system in the meantime, I want to have some evidence that the drive is at fault. So far, the disk worked with DOS and FreeBSD 3.4, and Scandisk cannot find any problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message