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Oh my God that was scary (click of death faked?)
Freedom Kira:
I'm thinking it's the controller. I've never had the problem before myself, though... Perhaps Seagate put some firmware on the drive that acts up when you connect it out of spec, i.e. outside of the enclosure?
(BTW, DOA = dead on arrival. Since it seems like you were using the disk for storage, it wouldn't be considered DOA)
nstgc:
Did I really screw up writing the opening post that badly? The drive I thought was DOA was the new Seagate drive, which I have never used before. The drive that was having a problem was the old Samsung drive. The old Samsung dive is not an external drive, and it was not manufactured by Seagate. The Samsung drive was initially used inside a real computer connected to all the stuff internal drives are use to. This has never happened before.
I think its just that the Marvel controller is a piece of shit.
Freedom Kira:
Haha, nicely done. You pretty much didn't mention at all that your story about the CoD involved two disks. =P
So if I understand correctly, your new drive appears to be fine now, which I assume is in an enclosure? I still don't really get what happened with the F2 that caused you to panic, because you say you had to disconnect the new drive. So was it initially connected internally, and you had brought it out to put in the enclosure and it worked? Then you put it back inside and it CoD'd, but it still worked in the enclosure?
nstgc:
No the new drive is in my computer connected to the Intel controller.
Here is the chain of events:
01) I put both drives into my computer
02) I connected the new drive (the Seagate F4) to the Intel controller an the old drive (Samsung F2) to the Marvel controller
03) I turned the power on
04) CoD
05) Assumed that the F4 was DOA
06) Disconnected F4
07) Powered back on
08) Click of Death
09) Panic
10) Remove F2
11) put F2 in enclosure
12) reconnect F4
13) power back on
14) Copy files
I'm not exactly the most articulate person, but I think a list like that should make it clear.
Clannad_92:
--- Quote from: nstgc on June 05, 2012, 07:29:45 PM ---Clicking. As in the actuator head is slamming against a hard stopper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
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damn...my drive is starting to produce the CoD...
if i recall, all drive that in portable mode using custom ExHDD(not like WD/SeaGate ExHDD) produce CoD, but when in internal mode, no CoD...thats weird...
--- Quote from: nstgc on June 06, 2012, 01:58:23 PM ---14) Copy files
I'm not exactly the most articulate person, but I think a list like that should make it clear.
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the most important step...but in my case, it always failed...drive dead during copy... :'(
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