On Sunday 25 January 2009 11:36:54 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2009-01-25 at 09:44 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
Both disks passed the extended (long) test (whew!), so that narrows down the problem to the cabling, or maybe the controller card.
There is another possibility. Some manufacturers, like seagate, have a stand alone utility that run those tests under control of the cpu, including controller and cable test (so they say). It is a floppy or iso bootable image.
These drives are Western Digital Caviar Greens. I don't remember getting any CD/floppy with them, but I admit I don't pay much attention when I do, as utility disks supplied with hardware are generally designed to run under Windows. I'll have a look on the WD website, though. Thanks for the tip. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org