Re: IDE interface bad ...

Meat Plow wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:43:33 +0100, Baron wrote:
> 
>> 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 ! 
> 
> I had problems with a Dell Poweredge server and 1 of the 3 factory
> installed Fujitsu drives 1 day after setting it up. They sent another
> Fujitsu drive and that lasted a month. Dell sent yet another
> replacement and a few weeks later one of the original drives failed. I
> talked the owner into buying 3 Seagate drives and I reinstalled the
> operating system and restored data from the backup. The server is
> still in use after 4 years.

I've never had problems with Dell's services.  Fujitsu will tell you to
return the drive to the original vendor.  Which is fine if the original
vendor still exists.  An awful lot of Fujitsu drives were sold by
vendors that vanished within a few months.  I know of one that traded
under three different names from the same address.  But none of those
names were the one that he used to make purchases with, from the
manufacturers !

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Best Regards:
                     Baron.