On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:41:54 -0400, Jeff Malczewski wrote: >If you heard the drive *ping*, check your power settings..?? Perhaps >it's configured to power down unused drives after a period of time? Checked, it's set to "never" spin down. >Dunno what else it could be, aside from a hardware malfunction.. I was thinking so too. The 2ry ide-port on the mobo may be twitchy, however the cdrom seems to be fine. Are there still (bios-)limits on how big a drive may be if it's connected on the 2ry ide-port? I know this was an issue a few years back. >Again, though, I'd recommend checking with Maxtor to find out about >the SMART information being incorrect.. You should be able to provide >them with the serial number of the drive and they can give you the >date of manufacture and whether or not it was sold as new or >refurbished... Manana. I'm going home. 8*) >Also, what did you pay for the drive? Chances are if you got a deal >that was "too good to be true", it was, and it's a re-furb. If you >paid market rate, then it's either brand new, or you got ripped off... "Full price". About 2000 SEK (approx 150 USD) >> >No problem.. However, I doubt that ALL the hard drives you have are >> >refurbished (or were they all purchased together in one lot?)... >> >> No, they weren't. I don't keep that big a stock on the shelves, >> only two-three for emergencies. ANyway, that 300G-drive was >> purchased separately. >> >> >I'd keep >> >poking around.. Perhaps contact the drive's manufacturer? They might be >> >able to provide some insight on this.. >> >> I have now changed it from being 2ry slave to 1ry slave, and so far >> it's still working fine. >> >> It almost seemed as if it got disconnected somehow, as I heard the >> "drive disconnected"-ping after some 15-30 minutes after each >> reboot, at which point it would be up and avtive for another 15-30 >> minutes. I'm not quite sure this should happen with harddrives in >> win2k server sp4, or should it...?? It's a regular at-drive, and >> not usb, fw, or whatever. >> >> I'll let it run for a while and see what happens till tomorrow >> morning. >> >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> >Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:03 AM >> >To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: SMART with harddrives >> > >> > >> >On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:52:38 -0400, Jeff Malczewski wrote: >> > >> >>I have purchased re-furbished hard drives on numerous occasions. It >> >>usually happens when a customer returns a drive that has been opened >> >>(whether or not is has been used is usually not a factor) or when a >> >>customer sends a drive back for warranty and that drive is either a) >> >>not broken or b) easily repaired. Read the fine print.. About 6 or 7 >> >>years ago I had a 1.7Gb IDE Seagate, and it went bad. Seagate's >> >>solution was to send me a refurbished hard drive for the >> >>replacement... >> > >> >I had no idea... I guess we learn something new every day. Thx for >> >the info! >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >>> >SS> Just checked a slighly flakey harddrive with a tool called >> >>> >SS> diskcheckup, and it reported that the particular drive had had >> >>> >SS> 50875 power on hours. That would translate to about 6 years ontime, >> >>> >SS> right? >> >>> > >> >>> >SS> Now, I know for a fact that this specific hd was bought and >> >>> >SS> installed (by me) about 8 months ago, so what gives? >> >>> > >> >>> >SS> Do any of you what this "power on hours" actually means, as my >> >>> >SS> initial thought was that it would indicate for how long the drive >> >>> >SS> been up and running ("on"). >> >>> > >> >>> >SS> I also checked the other two harddrives on the same computer, and >> >>> >SS> those also report power-on times in the 50-60k hrs range, in fact >> >>> >SS> other drives on other computers I checked out of curiousity also >> >>> >SS> report totally hillarious power on hours. We do run our servers and >> >>> >SS> clients 24/7, but none of those are even as old as the hd SMART >> >>> >SS> power-on flag indicates. >> >>> > >> >>> >SS> Is the SMART-features at all reliable?? >> >>> > >> >>> >SS> This is weird... Thx for any hints >> >>> > >> >>> >The only suggestion I'd have is that the drive was refurbished. I've >> >>> >bought some hard drives that were great deals only to find out that they >> >>> >were refurbished and that was not made clear to me at the time of >> >purchase. >> >>> >> >>> The particular drive was one of those new maxtor 300GB-series kind >> >>> of type, so I'd say it's not a refurbished one. >> >>> >> >>> Refurbished? How common is that? I've never heard of companies >> >>> refurbishing harddrives and selling them as new. 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