> Don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I recently had some
> similar errors on a newish WD caviar, and now RH is running on a
> Maxtor instead. Maybe mine weren't so bad. I could run several days,
> maybe a week or two, before errors. I did several partial re-installs.
> Blamed it on SMP for a while. IOW, I would suspect the drive. Things
> you might try: try a different cable. Make sure cable is seated
> properly. Use a memory testing program like memtest86 to check RAM.
> Also, cpu and mboard stress testers like burnCPU and burnBX (not exact
> names, I forget). If using hdparm to tweak, turn it all off. I did all
> this, and got it down to the drive. Zero errors on the Maxtor now (up
> 21 days). I also have another WD which is not doing this. The WD in
> question, replaced a WD that died abruptly well before its time. I am
> a little soured on WD at this point. I hope this is not it for you.
I have Maxtor too. My 1.6Gig been good then just became flaky before time.
I only had it about 4 years but it messed up about half a year ago. My very
first hd is Seagate 40meg, still works like a charm no bad sectors nothing
and
I had it for about 8 years. But all brands may go bad. Naturally we would
feel that way when certain brand goes off then we become partial. I felt
like
going back to Seagate but who knows.
CH
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