Re: [tlug] Clunk, Clunk, the Drive is Dead

[Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com>]

Andrew Hamilton wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:42:19PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
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> > was leaning strongly towards that...curious though, as this drive, even 
> > though 1-2yrs old, has had very little use in that time...what could 
> > have caused it to just go like that?
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> Sometimes it's just luck of the draw.  I just replaced a hard drive 
> in a client's laptop -- the laptop was less than 3 months old at the 
> time.  No indication until one day it started clunking and wouldn't
> boot up.
>
> - awh
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Hi All,

ok, just read up on low-level formatting, to get a better understanding 
of ide drives. Seems that ide has a native and a tranlsation mode, with 
controller(manufacturer data) kept in 0 or -1 and translation is used 
for bios/os communication. This is probably a good time to ask questions 
about drives, and learn something outa the negative. Just gotta think of 
the right questions, and how best to ask them. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.