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Subject: Re: Harddisk damage by driver? 
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:39:04 -0700
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I would agree the problem is likely to be
electrical/mechanical and the most likely cause is
overheating. Your experience with the drive that came up
after some time does point to overheating.

However you might want to rule out a mal-functioning power
supply unit which could cause similar symptoms. This is
unlikely but possible.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bakul Shah" <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: "Axel Simon" <A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk>
Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>;
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: Harddisk damage by driver?


> The fack that all the drives die makes me think may be
your
> puter is not properly ventilated and the hard disks get
very
> hot.  You may have had very bad luck with all the drives
but
> that is not very likely.  A bad cable would give you
> read/write errors but it won't make your disk make loud
> repetitive clicking noises!  A FreeBSD driver can not be
at
> fault either with modern IDE or SCSI drives.
>
> See if the disks get very hot and if so, see if keeping
the
> box open and pointing a big fan at the disks make the
errors
> go away.  If the heat is a problem, you can do a number of
> things to keep good air flow around disks.
>
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