John,
First off, it could be the way your BIOS is looking at the drive. I use to work for
WD in tech support. If I remember
correctly this was not one of the drives that was recalled. But again it has been a
while so I could be wrong. You can
find the serial number on the drive by using something called diag. Go to this link
and you will be able to dnload the
util. http://www.wdc.com/service/ftp/drives.html It is called datalife guard tools.
Run that on the drive, there is two option
that you can run. One is going to clean off the drive, and the other is just going to
check it. I would run the check first, then may
be the one that will destroy the data. Also there should be a check to see if the
serial number has been recalled. If so call the
tech support number on the form and they can help. Tell them you want to do an
advance replacement, it will REQUIRE a credit card.
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Steven
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On 6/11/2000 at 2:25 PM John J. Donohue wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jerry Human wrote:
>
>> I sure hope you can help me with this one. Last week I installed a WD
>> Caviar 102AA 10 gig hard drive and made four partitions: hdc1 four gig,
>> hdc2 100 meg, hdc3 three gig, and hdc4 three gig. I installed RH 6.2 on
>> hdc1 and used hdc2 for the swap file. The drives hda and hdb are used
>> for DOS and Win95.
>>
>> After a two days on boot up I get a prompt to enter root password for
>> maintenance to run fsck manually. When I do, I get a series of errors
>> for inodes 2 through 283692:
>>
>There's a recall on of a certain serial number range of those drives. Go
>to www.westerndigital.com to see if yours is one of them.
>
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