 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | reply to weaseled386
Re: WD Velociraptors.... The problem could be any of the following:
* SATA port has gone bad or controller circuitry has begun to fail
* Power cable has gone bad or been jostled loose
* SATA cables have gone bad or been jostled loose
* Drive failure
* SMART on drive is returning overall health status failure causing your controller and/or OS driver to mark the disk as offline
If you're running a 32-bit Windows OS, you can hook the "bad drive" up to a non-RAIDed and non-ACHI port and get me SMART stats using smartmontools. Please don't use any other utility unless you're running a 64-bit OS, in which case HD Tune would be sufficient.
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