Re: IDE interface bad ...

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:43:03 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
<arfa.daily@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>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've never had a drive fail in this way before, problems usually being
motor 
>or bearing related. Anyone else had it ?
>
>Arfa 

If a drive has bad blocks, then Windows will appear to hang while it
repeatedly retries the affected reads or writes. If a drive doesn't
spin up, then the BIOS may appear to hang while it is waiting for it
to do so. Eventually it should time out and move on.

I have two Fujitsu drives that have a faulty Cirrus Logic IC. This
model series featured in a law suit. The failure symptoms are
sometimes as you describe, while at other times I will get reams of
bad blocks which come good on the next try.

- Franc Zabkar
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