From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 12:33:47 EDT
listen to steve..
BACK IT UP NOW..!
do NOT turn it on again until you are ready to do the backup and then do
that first..
that drive is exhibiting classic symptoms of immediately impending
failure..!
new travelstar drivee are selling at very low prices these days..
your iSeries will support most any of the new travelstar HDD's..
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu>
To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: TP 1400 HardDrive fails Linear verify?
It is absolutely time to back up everything that you care about, on
that disk. What you describe sounds like the drive was doing a lot
of recalibrations to figure out where the heads were, which is never
a good sign. I wouldn't bet that your disk will last much longer.
Back suff up *now*.
--STeve Andre'
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 08:56 am, Todd Richardson wrote:
> I turned on the Laptop last night and it seemed to be taking forever to
> load WinXP.The hardrive was making a funning click/click noise as it was
> trying to access.
> I ran the fixed disk test on the diagnostics disc,it passes all but the
> linear and random verify.
> It worked fine two days prior....time to format,or upgrade to larger HD?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
> Todd Richardson
> '76 fj40 w/PTO&P/S
> '90 fj62
> TLCA#4696, STLCA, GCC, RLC
> Little Rock,AR
> mailto:tlc_fj40_at_swbell.net
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