I can't believe you tried fujitsu and not hitachi (bought from IBM) or Maxtor.
As previously posted, once settled on a lower dma mode this problem usually goes away but must indicate a problem. I wonder if your motherboard is powering down the drive occassionally, possibly resetting this procedure. If you have gone through this many drives from a known good source then I would assume an external problem to the drive manufacturers. I'd also check for a heat or power problem and attempt to reduce head movement via data positon management. Perhaps even a particular size of drives or particular batches of drives are the problem. You could test a new drive in other machines and locations. Be careful what you believe and don't know about solid state, a lot of info is hype. On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:29:38 -0600 Chris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >> I can get a large SATA disk pretty cheap, but this board doesn't > >> accept SATA. > >> > >> Anyone have any thoughts on whether I should just pay more for a > >> smaller PATA or get the SATA. > >> > >> If I get the SATA, I will need to buy either a SATA pci card or get a > >> SATA to IDE adapter. > >> Are there any problems I should expect with these two choices for SATA? > > > > Well, I just finish one more replacement of SATA drive today. The > > forth time, yes you read it, 4 times so far in 2 years. Yes it is on a > > busy database, but never the less, I thought that SATA wasn't sooooo > > bad! Even IDE drives were better then that. I reach the conclusion and > > will start this process to trash, yes trash any thing I use that > > happened to use SATA. I guess newer doesn't mean better and that cheap > > may be good for really cheap stuff as long as you really don't care > > about the data or the time wasted rebuilding this stuff. > > > > Call me stupid, but I miss the OLD SCSI. At a minimum, they were fast, > > reliable, yes when they blow up they could just jam hard real fast, > > but in most cases, you got sign of them falling before they did. This > > SATA crap is really the worst drives I have seen in a long time. Of > > all 4, they were Western Digital, Seagate and Fujitsu. > > > > I guess the only choices now is to use SAS and that's about it as all > > others are going out of the market, or use solid state drives, witch > > are still pretty expensive when the size go high. > > > > So, do as you wish, but if you asked me, put a bit more money in it > > and get better drives then SATA one. > > > > Every one have their opinion, but if the drives are real busy, I don't > > think many would recommend to use SATA unless you use softraid and > > all, but even then, I guess they might suggest to still use something > > better. > > > > I know I am done with SATA drives experience have proven it just way > > to clearly to me! > > > > Best, > > > > Daniel > > > > > So I guess thats a vote for SATA? :) > > Actually, as I finished this post, I realized that once I bought some > kind of adapter, I would be spending enough extra to just go ahead and > get a bigger IDE without actually spending more total $. > > SCSI was nice, wasn't it! > -- Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]>
