On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:19, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > Can you suggest a solution? I have not had that exp. with the 4 others I > have, but they are all getting more prop. stuff on em it seems. > > The only thing I can think of is to try another Maxtor just like the > original in it and if that doesn't work I'll have to call gateway and > tell them its bad?
Have you thought about a BIOS update? A BIOS update might fix the system's undocumented `feature'. ;-) Also, I've had systems behave real weird at times and making adjustments to the BIOS didn't help. The only way I could clear the problem was to clear the BIOS. From what I could ascertain, these systems had one or more bits swapped in the BIOS that could not be changed via the BIOS setup. You might want to clear the BIOS and reset it to a safe configuration. If that works, make adjustments to the BIOS for optimum performance --- idealy one setting at a time --- and see if the problem comes back. If the above suggestions don't work: You've had at least two(?) WD drives not work after putting a filesystem on them so I would say there is a compatibility problem, which shouldn't happen. In this case, I would report the problem to both manufacturers and get them to work together to resolve the problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
