Ok, so I have a 10Gig "IBM-DJSA-210" and it pauses in the middle of most
reads/writes and clicks and clunks a little then carries on after it
finishes its little episode. I know that some of IBM's HD's have been
notorious to "click and clunk" a little on their death throws, well this is
exactly what mine is doing, except that no errors have been created so far
and Hitachi's DFT utility shows no errors or problems whatsoever, so it's
not "failing" as such, it's just causing an extremely frustrating break in
continuous operations... hence pissing me off... and scaring the heck out of
me because only the monkey in the tree knows when it will quit on me.

So my question is this... is it just a dead HD like i suspect... or is it
actually possible to have created problems by plugging a perfectly good
ATA100 drive into an ATA66 controller?

I don't think so... and i'm about to buy a brand new HD... but i thought i
would ask just to know if it "could" be anything other than a busted HD.

Specs:

Acer Extensa 501DX
(Travelmate 500)
Mainboard and BIOS
Bus(es) : ISA PCI PCMCIA CardBus USB SMBus/i2c
System BIOS : ACER V3.0 R01-A5n-EN
Mainboard : ACER ALi Alladin 4
System Chipset : Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi) ALI M1531 Aladdin IV/IV+ CPU
to PCI Bridge

Physical Storage Devices
Disk Drive : IBM-DJSA-210

Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional




thanks, comment if you will.

ok, so i did a dogpile search and found some mac's (ibooks) having a few
problems, and it's related to power consumption, and is apparently an APM
problem, not broken at all. it's a feature in the Travelstar that actually
saves power and extends the life of the drive... bugger that, i'm going to
buy a Fujitsu like i planned and keep this for an external USB drive.

ok, so i did a dogpile search and found some mac's (ibooks) having a few
problems, and it's related to power consumption, and is apparently an APM
problem, not broken at all. it's a feature in the Travelstar that actually
saves power and extends the life of the drive... bugger that, i'm going to
buy a Fujitsu like i planned and keep this for an external USB drive.

That clunk is the slamming of the read arm and failure is eminent

winkle wrote:
>
> Ok, so I have a 10Gig "IBM-DJSA-210" and it pauses in the middle of most
> reads/writes and clicks and clunks a little then carries on after it
> finishes its little episode. I know that some of IBM's HD's have been
> notorious to "click and clunk" a little on their death throws, well this is
> exactly what mine is doing, except that no errors have been created so far
> and Hitachi's DFT utility shows no errors or problems whatsoever, so it's
> not "failing" as such, it's just causing an extremely frustrating break in
> continuous operations... hence pissing me off... and scaring the heck out of
> me because only the monkey in the tree knows when it will quit on me.
>
> So my question is this... is it just a dead HD like i suspect... or is it
> actually possible to have created problems by plugging a perfectly good
> ATA100 drive into an ATA66 controller?
>
> I don't think so... and i'm about to buy a brand new HD... but i thought i
> would ask just to know if it "could" be anything other than a busted HD.
>
> Specs:
>
> Acer Extensa 501DX
> (Travelmate 500)
> Mainboard and BIOS
> Bus(es) : ISA PCI PCMCIA CardBus USB SMBus/i2c
> System BIOS : ACER V3.0 R01-A5n-EN
> Mainboard : ACER ALi Alladin 4
> System Chipset : Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi) ALI M1531 Aladdin IV/IV+ CPU
> to PCI Bridge
>
> Physical Storage Devices
> Disk Drive : IBM-DJSA-210
>
> Operating System(s)
> Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional
>
> thanks, comment if you will.

That clunk is the slamming of the read arm and failure is eminent

winkle wrote:
>
> Ok, so I have a 10Gig "IBM-DJSA-210" and it pauses in the middle of most
> reads/writes and clicks and clunks a little then carries on after it
> finishes its little episode. I know that some of IBM's HD's have been
> notorious to "click and clunk" a little on their death throws, well this is
> exactly what mine is doing, except that no errors have been created so far
> and Hitachi's DFT utility shows no errors or problems whatsoever, so it's
> not "failing" as such, it's just causing an extremely frustrating break in
> continuous operations... hence pissing me off... and scaring the heck out of
> me because only the monkey in the tree knows when it will quit on me.
>
> So my question is this... is it just a dead HD like i suspect... or is it
> actually possible to have created problems by plugging a perfectly good
> ATA100 drive into an ATA66 controller?
>
> I don't think so... and i'm about to buy a brand new HD... but i thought i
> would ask just to know if it "could" be anything other than a busted HD.
>
> Specs:
>
> Acer Extensa 501DX
> (Travelmate 500)
> Mainboard and BIOS
> Bus(es) : ISA PCI PCMCIA CardBus USB SMBus/i2c
> System BIOS : ACER V3.0 R01-A5n-EN
> Mainboard : ACER ALi Alladin 4
> System Chipset : Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi) ALI M1531 Aladdin IV/IV+ CPU
> to PCI Bridge
>
> Physical Storage Devices
> Disk Drive : IBM-DJSA-210
>
> Operating System(s)
> Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional
>
> thanks, comment if you will.