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Poorly PC [solved -- unreliable motherboard]
marko:
tomorrow, I will be checking to see if the 150Mb/s SATA jumper has been left on that slow drive...
KingSparta:
I don't think that would create an Error.
marko:
No, but it would explain the pitiful 4Mb/s transfer rate I'm seeing from the drive, along with the random "the device has out of date firmware" mesaages I've also been finding in the system logs.
The jumper was in place. I removed it and now the drive is operating at full speed again.
The drive in question is, would you believe it, the replacement drive I received from Seagate under an RMA back in April. What a palava that was, let me tell you. I had to obtain a copy of the signed P.O.D. from the courier and pass that on to Seagate before they would accept that they had actually received my faulty drive!!
I've bought a new drive. A cheap as chips 'no brand' affair in a plain brown box. Turns out the drive is a Samsung HD753LJ which has extremely favourable reviews out there. Only time will tell, but initially, I'm happy with that. The drive is virtually silent, which is always a nice bonus.
Hopefully, things will settle down now...
marko:
So, the 'smart' money is now resting on the motherboard being faulty...
Bought new hard drive, swapped it out in place of suspect drive and within 1 day, it went AWOL too and brought the system down... sheesh!!
Unsure if it was related or not, but the new also began throwing S.M.A.R.T. errors on the next boot.
I went through yet another low level format and took the drive back. I hooked the replacement drive into a different SATA port on the board and so far, so good...
KingSparta:
one time i air dusted the Firewire 800 controller board, and the drive stopped going AWOL.
I then bought a new Firewire 800 controller and have not had a problem yet.
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