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From: "Niels Stenhøj"
Hi Pete et al!
pete atkinson wrote:
has anybody come across this ?
I have (had) a Seagate 38410 8.4G hard disk that I was going to use on one of my machines.. I had had a couple of issues with it so thought that I would run a thorough scandisk on it (yes I know tis windows - please excuse this....) I reached cluster 1,510,000 or thereabouts and then this clunking noise emanates from the drive - now it is completely shagged,
Yeah, I have indeed come across this noise. A friend of mine had a new Seagate (6.5 G). The vendor refunded him. This may not necessary. The Seagate disk utilities may be able to restore your hard disk.
A good idea is to download the hard disk utility for your hard disk make. Personally, I don't use Seagate HD's, but Seagate has excellent tools as well. To restore your hard disk to factory standard, you must choose to overwrite your entire hard disk or separate partitions with binary zeros. After such an operation your hard disk will work as new.
I prefer Quantum hard disks because of their stability.
Quite frankly, both Seagate and Western Digital Drives have worked very well for me. I had a Seagate that crashed recently. 245.something MB. The thing was ten years old, came out of a 486 33Mhz. on the other hand, I have a computer still using a 722Mb Seagate that runs win95 like a charm. (Not bad for an AMD 5x86 133 Mhz) (Just remember to feed windows 16 Mb of Ram and a good VL video card, and a VL primary EIDE. Trust me it makes a world of difference) My other computer uses a 13.0 GB WD. About two years old, hasn't given me a lick of trouble, and then my linux box has a 4.3 GB Seagate that hasn't given me a lick of trouble either, but it's only a few months old. Well, that's my two dollars worth -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq