VanLUG Email Archive
I had a WD AC23200L hard drive go bad on me yesterday. About the middle
50% of the drive appears to be trashed now, which is sadly where my Linux
lives :^( But I'm running Debian, so I just have to reinstall the backed
up list of packages and the /etc directory for config files, and so on.
When I turned on the power yesterday I heard some horrible clicking and
clunking noises coming from the drive, then the PC couldn't find it. I
turned it off and checked the cable and power connectors (they were
OK), then turned it on again. The symptom was that Linux booted
v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.
The drive was only 8 months old, and the WDDIAG program found 10 bad
tracks, none of which could be repaired. I'm calling Tech Support today
to get a replacement cross-shipped.
The reason I'm posting is to find out if my experiences are typical.
I have 3 WD hard drives and now two of them have had to be replaced
over the last two years. Does Western Digital really suck? Or is
it all IDE hard drives?
*Please* don't flame me over the IDE/SCSI issue ;^) My *next* PC *will*
be all SCSI, don't worry. I've had enough of this drive dying crap!
Clemmitt Sigler
Va. Tech Physics Dept.