[ale] suddenly finding computer 'seized-up'....ATTN:DowHurst-2

[Jeff Hubbs]

TheMaxtor may well *be* a Promise.  In any case, did you repartition and 
reformat the drive before testing it when you made the change?

Jeff

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>Jeff,
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>Thanks for the reply.
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>I replaced the Promise card this AM with a Maxtor of the same type and am
>still gettin' the same disk errors. I guess it's the HD.
>
>Courtney
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jeff Hubbs" <hbbs at comcast.net>
>To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:44 AM
>Subject: Re: [ale] suddenly finding computer 'seized-up'....ATTN:DowHurst-2
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>>>The box is a few years old, runs about 900 mhz, has about 320MB ram and
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>has
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>>>a 200GB drive which is not run from the onboard sockets but as a
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>pseudo-scsi
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>>>connection from a Promise card. When I tried to switch it to the
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>motherboard
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>>>sockets I got even more errors so I'm assuming it's the HD, a Seagate
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>that
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>>>has about 5 more yrs. warranty.
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>>If the Promise card is a bad actor, i.e., it's not failing but what it
>>does is improper, then it may be horking up the filesystem - and the
>>horking would persist or could even worsen if you connected the drive to
>>an onboard controller.  Before going through the drive RMA hassle, why
>>don't you leave it connected to the onboard controller and give it a
>>good pounding first?
>>
>>Jeff
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