On 2012/01/04 10:43 (GMT) Dave Howorth composed:
At my lab, I'd swap out that drive and see if the problem goes away. If so, I'd RMA the drive back for a new one.
To do that with a WD disk, you need to run their diagnostics. In my experience, they fail to identify errors even when the disk fails in use. That's one reason why I no longer buy WD. Disks that lie about sector sizes and the whole TLER fiasco are other reasons.
My first HD purchase was a Seagate. It began to randomly fail to spin up just after age 12 months when its warranty expired. I then began a long period of buying Quantum exclusively. That lasted until Maxtor took it over, at which time I switched to IBM. That didn't last long, as IBM disgorged all its involvement with HD manufaturing to Hitachi, at which point few alternatives to WD remained, and I went mostly to Seagate mainly because of its longer warranties, never yet having tried Fujitsu and only twice Samsung. In over a decade I had never bought a WD drive before discovering http://lists.mandriva.com//expert/2002-05/msg00948.php . That reinforced my understanding of WD's insistence on marketing EIDE (a proprietary superset of PATA) devices while all others marketed only pure (P)ATA devices. All others made do with a compatible two jumper arrangement (master=single vs. slave), while WD required three separate options (master only, single only, slave). Mixing "EIDE" with non-EIDE was an invitation for obscure and not so obscure performance problems. I only bought WD for the first time after Seagate PATA production was halted, and to date have only ever bought three, none of which SATA. It's a shame alternatives to WD have all but disappeared. Have you tried to replace a PATA drive lately? Many proprietary devices like DVRs use them, and in many cases PATA to SATA adapters will not fit into available space, forcing either adapation to more expensive 2.5" drives or abandoning an other wise good, and likely non-replaceable, device entirely after a drive failure. In retailers like Best Buy WD is all there is, and with no material size selection. Now on top of that, Seagate's longer warranties are history too, conformed to or even shorter than WD's recently announced warranty reductions. :-( http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_and_seagate_cut_hard_drive_warr... -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org