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from: Franklin
date: 2005-12-02 01:22:56
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Annoying Hard Drive

Since power is a big issue now on the group, do you have adequate power
supply to run all the drives and the rest of the computer?

Franklin

--- Robert M Riddle  wrote:

> I prefer smaller and multiple drives, an advantage of SCSI.
> 
> Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
> > In , on 12/01/2005 
> >    at 06:19 PM, Robert M Riddle  said:
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >   
> >> Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hello Scuzzy Hard Drivers
> >>>
> >>>      Well, I did it to myself, again.  Bought a used hard
> >>> drive.  While it is working, it is vigorously convincing
> >>> me to by another drive to replace it.
> >>>
> >>>      It is a Seagate / IBM 73GB SCSI drive.
> >>>
> >>> HBA ID LUN VENDOR   PRODUCT          REV  SYNC WIDE INI13  CYL/
> HD/SEC ---
> >>> -- --- -------  ---------------- ---  ---- ---- -----
> ------------
> >>>  0  13  0  IBM-ESXS SW373405LW    !# B243 40.0  16   82h 
> 1024/255/63
> >>>
> >>>      I have never experienced a drive behaving like this before.
> It acts
> >>> as if it is being accessed every 10 seconds or so.  The LED
> flashes and
> >>> EVERYTHING!!  It even makes that most ANNOYING grinding noise
> like the
> >>> "TCPIP Startup" program does at bootup when it
needlessly grinds
> the
> >>> floppy drives!!  Sheesh.
> >>>
> >>>      Any ideas or advise?
> >>>       
> >
> >   
> >> Well I am on my 3rd one under the 5 year warranty, no help but it
> does 
> >> say something about this model.
> >>     
> >
> >      While, I can't say that is comforting, I can say it is
> > informative.
> >
> >      Since I started feeling better about my financial situation
> after I
> > bought this drive, you are reinforcing my inclination to replace it
> with a
> > 140GB drive.
> >
> >      Thanks
> >
> >   
> 
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