On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:27, Rajko M. wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 04:15, Clayton wrote: > ... > > > I'm assuming the drive is unrecoverable (ie it's not worth risking > > my data to try and run the Maxtor tools on it and "repair" the > > drive)... so it's up for replacement in the next week or so. > > You may try to slow down the drive. > I got one that was about to fail, but decreasing the speed, using > Maxtor utilities, from 66 to 33 helped and it still runs.
I think the only hypothesis supported by this observation is something related to the electronics. Possibly a damaged cable or out-of-spec bus driver circuits on the mainboard or in the disk drive. > -- > Regards, Rajko. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
