In article <YR4ck.249531$1B6.90487@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Arfa Daily"
<arfa.daily@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Here's one I've never had before. Earlier this week, my wife informed me
>that a business-related CD ROM that she uses regularly on my machine, was
>failing to read. She was right. Further investigation revealed that the
>machine, a Dell, could no longer see my 250GB data drive either. This
drive
>is a Seagate, and was replaced probably a little over a year ago, because
>its predecessor, which had been in there a long time, had begun dying
with
>nasty noises and erratic reads. Both the CD ROM drive and the Seagate,
are
>on IDE channel 1, in cable select format.
>
>My first suspicion was that something had happened to the mother board's
IDE
>driver IC, but the Windoze diagnostic said that it was ok. Further checks
>disconnecting stuff, showed the problem to be the Seagate drive that was
>hanging up the channel 1 IDE bus. As soon as it was disconnected, the CD
ROM
>drive came back on line.
>
>I got a new 320GB drive from Maplin's for 49 quid (how good a deal is
that
>?) and was able to restore its contents from the external backup drive
that
>I have, and which does a backup automatically every night.
>
>I've never had a drive fail in this way before, problems usually being
motor
>or bearing related. Anyone else had it ?
>
>Arfa
>
>
If it was locking up the bus it was most likely neither, it was most
likely
the electronics on the drive that was going out.
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