On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 02:18:50PM -0400, David B.Teague wrote:
> I had a 1.6 GB Caviar drive to die with that horrible clicking
> prior to its death.The computer was at 1992 vintage 486-33.
>
> The WD Caviar 1.6 GB drives are reputed to be flakey. It was a
> design flaw of some kind. They apparen
I lost 1 Seagate, and one Western Digital on a machine running
linux some time ago. Started having problems with a third drive.
All this within a few weeks. Running a Cyrix processor. Swaped
the no name board out for another, but kept the same processor,
no more problems.
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Douglas Federman wrote:
> I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and
> running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several
> weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the
> first drive without question. Before I
At my former place of employment, we had quite a few 1.6 WDs
die. They would usually have that clicking problem.
My advice: download from WD their disk diagnosis program. You
put it on a DOS floppy, boot the floppy, and run the
program. If the program says the drive is dead, WD will
replace it
Thanks for the replies. The most recent crash was in a new computer and the
drive was less than 2 months old. The clicking started only when active at
first, but then it started during startup as well. The drive was delivered
directly from WD as a warranty replacement for the 1st dead drive.
Sounds like you got a bad batch of drives. I've used Western Digital drives
in 4 Linux boxes I've put together. All machines run 24/7. My own primary
home machine has been running Linux 24/7 for the last 4 years. The only
problem I had was last month when a WD 1.6 GB drive died a sudden and ver
Did you buy your drive in a consumer box, or was it gray market? The
only harddisks that I ever had a problem with (WD and Seagate) were
purchased gray market (no box, just wrapped in antistatic plastic) from
the local twaiwan row. I will NEVER buy a gray market HD again.
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Douglas Federman wrote:
> I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after
> installing and running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a
> clicking noise, several weeks later read errors appeared and now
> completely dead. WD replaced the first drive with
How old is the computer? It sounds more like a hardware issue then
software. If the power supply is freaking it can kill hard drives or a good
spike can cause damage to the hard drive's circuit board. The clicking
noise is usually associated with the drive heads being reset (slaming into
park),
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> >
> > I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and
> > running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several
> > weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the
> > first drive without ques
I have been using Western Digital drives with Linux for a long time. None
of them exhibits any sort of problem. One is a 3.1GB drive I've had for 3
years. Another is a 4GB drive I've had for 2, and a 10.1GB drive I bought
last fall. I doubt its Linux causing the problems... Actually, I've never
had
>
> I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and
> running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several
> weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the
> first drive without question. Before I replace the second, c
I been using TWO WD Caviars for 6 or 7 month now. Without any problems at
all. They run fine. I think it sounds more like a case of a bad batch of
hardware.
Rod..
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> From: Douglas Federman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 11:00 AM
> To: debian
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