Re: IDE interface bad ...

Franc Zabkar wrote:

> 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

You try getting Fujitsu to replace them !  No way !  I will not under
any cir***stances buy their drives...  Not even if they gave them
away !

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Best Regards:
                     Baron.