Arfa Daily 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 ?
God works in mysterious ways ! ;~)
Graham
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