Good call...it did change the IDE drive down to PIO mode. Why would it do that?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayes Elkins Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [H] Hard Drive Problems Do not test the SMART Gods, you should bow to them for giving you a warning. YMMV. As far as the CRC goes, I would first make sure your OS did not dumb down the IDE drive to PIO mode. >From: "Chris Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> >To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]> >Subject: [H] Hard Drive Problems >Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:54:43 -0400 > > I need help on this one. I have 4 hard drives in my system. > >*Disk 1 Sata Raptor Raid Striped Set drive letter = c >*Disk 2 Sata Raptor Raid Striped Set >*Disk 3 IDE WD drive drive letter = d >*Disk 4 WD Sata drive drive letter = e > >Drive letter D disappeared twice from my system in the past week. I'd >reboot and it would show up again under my computer, disk manager, etc. >However, when I try to copy data from d to C, I get a CRC error and it >won't >finish copying. I thought D was dying. I ran WD tests on it and it came >up >no problem. > >However, I just opened their data lifeguard tools again and now drive E >shows up as failing SMART status. It was passing earlier today. When I >run >a quick test on it I get "Status code = 04 (unknown failed test element), >Failure checkpoint = 64 (SMART attribute test). > >So does this mean that Drive is is the culprit? If so, why would D be >disappearing? > >Thanks, > >Chris > _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000002msn/direct/01/?href=http://www .windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail
