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brainchild786 · Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:04 pm

Any ideas what it could be? Its one of the Maxtor drives in my RAID array (specs in sig). Also when i was playing KOTOR off it it lagged badly as in pausing for about 2 seconds every 10 seconds. Anyone?

Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:06 pm

That's the famous 'click of death'. Time to RMA your drive.

Here is Maxtor's diagnostic disk. It will make a bootable floppy. Use it.

furbishv · Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:21 pm

That hard drive sounds like it's about to go bye bye.
Back up everything important asap.

eckslax · Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:33 pm

How long have you had the drive? It's an aweful shame for such a new drive to fail that quickly.

brainchild786 · Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:35 pm

eckslax wrote:
How long have you had the drive? It's an aweful shame for such a new drive to fail that quickly.

Only about 2 months. The other one is running fine though. I guess its RMA time.

Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:54 pm

Oh a clicky drive I am
And a clicky drive I'll be
Until heads hit the platter with a bang
And RMA time it is for me.

Sorry, couldn't resist :lol:

dolemitecomputers · Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:16 pm

morphine wrote:
Oh a clicky drive I am
And a clicky drive I'll be
Until heads hit the platter with a bang
And RMA time it is for me.

Sorry, couldn't resist

Lol....

Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:15 am

You are quite the poet there morphine :wink:

As for the drive failing, it could have taken a big hit while it was shipping, or it could just be a bum drive.

atidriverssuck · Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:17 am

i vote for a new forum: geekpoetry

muyuubyou · Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:49 am

brainchild786 wrote:
eckslax wrote:
How long have you had the drive? It's an aweful shame for such a new drive to fail that quickly.

Only about 2 months. The other one is running fine though. I guess its RMA time.

For what it's worth, my drive stopped clicking and it's now working perfectly. OTOH, it made me stop procastrinating and I actually put my back-ups to date.

I started my thread about the clicking Maxtor here: viewtopic.php?p=164068#164068

Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:30 am

Methinks they should add a feature to the drives that makes them click once in a while. That way we all make backups out of fear, even without any danger

FubbHead · Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:22 am

My Maxtor 120GB make some clicking sound once in a while. But it have never 'locked up' or anything. It is working flawlessly. I guess, under the right circumstances, any drive can produce some clicking sounds.

The 'pausing' in KOTOR doesn't have to mean anything. It's just that when reading from the drive (which it does continuosly in-game), the processor gets occupied for a moment with arranging the newly fetched data. It sounds normal to me.

But to be sure though, you can always do a diskscan on it. Might be bad blocks or something.

brainchild786 · Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:49 am

FubbHead wrote:
The 'pausing' in KOTOR doesn't have to mean anything. It's just that when reading from the drive (which it does continuosly in-game), the processor gets occupied for a moment with arranging the newly fetched data. It sounds normal to me.

Doesnt do it on my other HD which is exactly the same

LicketySplit · Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:57 am

Dont feel too badly...i know it sucks...i had to SE Caviar drives go in a 6 month span..all on the same rig.

FubbHead · Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:02 am

brainchild786 wrote:
Doesnt do it on my other HD which is exactly the same

Might be that the files on this drive is more fragmented. But do a scandisk on the drive, preferably overnight or while you're at work/school, as it will take some time to complete. If it passes without any problems, you should be safe..

brainchild786 · Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:51 am

FubbHead wrote:
brainchild786 wrote:
Doesnt do it on my other HD which is exactly the same

Might be that the files on this drive is more fragmented. But do a scandisk on the drive, preferably overnight or while you're at work/school, as it will take some time to complete. If it passes without any problems, you should be safe..

I doubt it is because it is fragmented because i formatted it and then installed KOTOR. But also when they were in a RAID array my RAID controller bios reported an error and windows ran chkdsk on startup a couple of times.

FubbHead · Tue Feb 03, 2004 4:53 am

brainchild786 wrote:
I doubt it is because it is fragmented because i formatted it and then installed KOTOR. But also when they were in a RAID array my RAID controller bios reported an error and windows ran chkdsk on startup a couple of times.

OK. Then obviously there IS something wrong with the drive.

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