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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