On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:53:31AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:05:08 +0100 > Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site, > > burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. > > good point. these may already be part of the Ultimate boot CD > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ - never leave home without it ! ;) An update on how it went; I tested the drive in an old PC with the Western Digital tool from the ultimate boot CD. The diagnostics produced no errors.
A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, the PL-3507, which was what I found in my enclosure. Most likely this is the culprit. I'm going to buy a new enclosure. Thanks for the help, everybody. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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