Hi, I do not have the type description at hand. I will look it. I did not see suspicious S.M.A.R.T. informations beforehand so I was calm. Only Temp made some headache (45C) but I do not know the limit. However, I saw already cooked drive - a real nasty thing. I guess the clicking noise you mentioned is another thing: it is a trial to position the heads in case the index information is being lost (or weak). A colleague of mine some years repaired MFM drives this way rewriting this index track. BTW, Wouter HAS a DOS driver for Wisp628. I even modified it slightly to program 87xA series PIC. If he does not mind and you needs it then it could be arranged. Regards, Imre On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Philip Pemberton wrote: > In message > "dr. Imre Bartfai" wrote: > > > plant some times ago. And as info for HDD reliability: I had a 40GB Maxtor > > HDD, which crashed very nasty: bad sectors, and a total mix up of an ext3 > > filesystem, so practically no way to recover the data. > Let me guess. Maxtor 5T040H4? > I had a 5T040H4 fail a few years ago - it stopped spinning. Funny thing is, > if you held the PC's RESET button in for a few seconds the drive would squeal > a few times, then make a click (probably the head-lock disengaging), then the > motor would start spinning. > Maxtor did an advance RMA on the drive. It died completely while I was > copying its contents onto the replacement. To Maxtor's credit, the > replacement was fine - it's a 6L080J4 - yes, an 80GB. Turns out the warehouse > ran out of 40GB UltraATA-100 drives, so they sent out the next one up - an > 80GB UltraATA-133. Absolutely lightning fast :) > Incidentally, I've got a 386 sitting next to me - 386DX-40, math coprocessor, > 8MB RAM, 8x CDROM, two serial ports, 16-bit soundcard... and a 4GB Seagate U4 > hard drive. What does the 386 run? DR-DOS 7.03, Protel Autotrax, Turbo C++ > and MPASM. Now if only I had a DOS driver for my wisp628... > > > However, I did not > > want to dump the drive so made a short look. Maxtor offers on their > > website a HDD repair program. I downloaded and ran it, and it cleaned up > > the drive perfectly. Since there (6 months) the drive runs without any > > problem (incl. badtracks). Misterious, eh? > If a drive starts displaying bad sectors, it's probably on its last legs. I > usually start backing data up to CD-R when the drive shows a single bad > sector (or flags a SMART Diagnostic Error), then RMA it post-haste. > > Later. > -- > Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB, > philpem@dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice, > http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI > ... So many idiots... too few flame-throwers... > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body