I've got a 60 gig deskstar model that is going seriously wrong. Its one of the older ones the 60gxp that ibm put out before hitachi took over.
What happens is, with the drive plugged in, no matter if its on its own channel or sharing, the machine (p4 2.8 intel board) hangs on detecting IDE drives etc and then takes an age to boot.
The problem was picked up when I was trying to capture raw DV from a firewire device and it was comming out all jumpy and the sound was messed up. So i looked to see if the drive was forced into PIO mode just as a long shot. It was.
Everything I tried from that point on to get the drive into UDMA wouldnt work, so I wondered why. I read up from a MS knowledge base article that windows will force the drive into a lower transfer mode if it picks up a certain amount of CRC or data errors across the interface.
So basically IBM fitness test says the drive is totally fine, the SMART status of it says its also fine. But its not, its completely useless. No wonder my raid setup was getting messed up with it.
So basically where do I go from here?
I need the drive to work for my video editing machine, to store massive avis that I rip from it. But I'm assuming without a proper return RMA code thing IBM/hitachi wont listen as I have no way of "proving" the drive is f**ked other than getting one of their engineers from whatever asian country they live in to come over to my house and watch.
Suggestions?
Dime
What happens is, with the drive plugged in, no matter if its on its own channel or sharing, the machine (p4 2.8 intel board) hangs on detecting IDE drives etc and then takes an age to boot.
The problem was picked up when I was trying to capture raw DV from a firewire device and it was comming out all jumpy and the sound was messed up. So i looked to see if the drive was forced into PIO mode just as a long shot. It was.
Everything I tried from that point on to get the drive into UDMA wouldnt work, so I wondered why. I read up from a MS knowledge base article that windows will force the drive into a lower transfer mode if it picks up a certain amount of CRC or data errors across the interface.
So basically IBM fitness test says the drive is totally fine, the SMART status of it says its also fine. But its not, its completely useless. No wonder my raid setup was getting messed up with it.
So basically where do I go from here?
I need the drive to work for my video editing machine, to store massive avis that I rip from it. But I'm assuming without a proper return RMA code thing IBM/hitachi wont listen as I have no way of "proving" the drive is f**ked other than getting one of their engineers from whatever asian country they live in to come over to my house and watch.
Suggestions?
Dime
so here goes..