>I had the same problem with a Quantum drive. Since I have lot of stuff
>in the box I didn't hear the drive spin. My problem were the female pin
>connectors in the drive power cable. Due to a lot of use they "opened"
>and didn't "grab" the male power pins of the drive when insterted. These
>resulted in a "dead" drive or a clicking noise of the head trying to
>park due to powerfailure. The solution was a small screwdriver with
>which I "closed" the female pins on the powercord.
>
>Who knows, maybe that's your problem too...?
Could very well be. I will be moving all of the stuff from the desktop
chassis to a tower chassis in the near future, resulting in new power
connections and cables. I just have to cut longer EIDE cables for the
tall tower :-(
MB
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