David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:36:34 -0500: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:08PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > > I've had something very similar to this before. My HDD is > > ``S.M.A.R.T.'' and it never warned me of immanent destruction so I was > > very concerned. I asked around and was told ``before you go out and bu > > a new disk, try wiggling the IDE cable around''. Of course I took this > > with a pinch of salt but I did try it -- and it worked! > > > > As hard to believe as it is, something along the lines of ``chip-creep'' > > appears to have happened to my IDE cable. Not two weeks after this, > > someone else I knew had the same problem on their box! > > > > So, give it a go -- it might help. > > Hadn't thought to check that out. Will do it. However, it seems odd > that it would lose connection and then regain it again. I never so much > as touched the case and it picked right back up.
Could have cooled. Mine did it in particular when I wobbled the IDE cable - I thought it was a bad cable at the time, but all my cables seemed equally bad. I eventually discovered the bottom of the HD was almost touching the metal case. If I turned off the computer for any length of time, things would cool, and shrink, and the HD would touch the case. If I wobbled the connector, the bottom of the drive would touch the case. It was particularly peculiar, in that as long as I held the reset button down, one of my drives would power down, but the other would stay up. I put plastic between the case and the bottom of the drive and it all works now. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ It typically takes 25-30 gallons of petrol/diesel to fully-consume an average-sized body under ideal conditions. That I am conversant with this level of detail should serve as an indication of why the wise man does not ask me questions about MS-Windows. --Tanuki on ASR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
