[pchelpers] Re: Should I trust it.

PcCowboy wrote:
> I have a SATA Maxtor 120gig drive
>
> You know when you place a cd in a drive or a removable drive in the USB 
> slot a window will pop up asking what you
> want to do.
>
> Well I got up yesterday and found that window on my screen. It was 
> asking about my SataMax drive.
> It was acting like the drive was a removable drive and I had just 
> plugged it in.
> I clicked cancel and started working on my email.
>
>   
This seems like an unreliable connection to the drive. Either that or a 
faulty drive. One way or another, the truth needs to be uncovered. 
Testing the drive in another system, or connecting another drive to that 
cable for a while would reveal that.
> Soon there was a "Click" from inside of the computer and the computer 
> made that "ding-dong" sound
> when you pull out a removable drive. Then there was a "Click" again and 
> the "ding-dong" sound again.
>
>   
This is sounding intermittent to me. Have you tried cleaning any metal 
connections with contact cleaner?
> I rebooted and got that blue screening saying that my SataMax drive 
> needed checking. After running it repaired
> a lot of files and then started XP.
>
> I moved all my videos off of that drive and havn't received that 
> "ding-dong" again. Evey thing seems to be running fine.
> But every time I reboot it re-checks the SataMax drive again.
>
> I tried the WD Window Diagnostic and it shows the SMART status as 
> passing, but the program locks up when
> I try to run tests.
>
> The Seagate tool also passes this drive.
>
> The Maxtor PowerMax 4.21 program can't see a SATA drive with an embedded 
> controller on the motherboard.
> And the PowerMax 4.22 program locks up when detecting the drives.
>
> Anyone knows how I can get an error code for the RMA if there is one?
>
>   
If there is an error to report, shouldn't the drive test have reported 
it? If there are drive detection problems, it suggests bad contacts on 
the SATA interface, static damage or a BIOS problem. It must be process 
of elimination time for this.
> And should I trust this drive?
>   
Not until the cause is identified.
> Pc
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