[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!

Ken Ratliff forsaken at targaryen.us
Fri Jan 16 13:09:30 EST 2009


Well the first thing I'd suggest is dropping it in another box to see  
if that box will see it. Assuming no, it's probably time to get an RMA  
number from Seagate if their own utils don't won't see it.

On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> well, I was playing around with a 64 bit kernel, and decided to  
> reboot. on
> rebooting the CPU case was buzzing, I thought the cover was loose.  
> When it
> came back up it was giving me fsck errors on the mountable  
> partitions on the
> 2nd drive ( the NEW Seagate ).. oops, so I rebooted into 32bit mode,  
> yeah,
> well, no difference. So I booted into XP partition to install the  
> latest
> Bios, I'd been putting off doing that til my next reboot.. So I  
> installed the
> new BIOS, rebooted, nada. It took forever to reboot, I thought it  
> was just
> hanging at the Intel Matrix Storage manager section, but after a  
> minute or
> more it finally booted, but gave errors on all the /dev/sdbX  
> partitions.
> I downloaded the Seagate drive utilities, and ran them, but it  
> doesn't see a
> drive attached to the bus ;(
> and I just GOT that drive when Circuit City went under !!!
> Seagate Barracuda st3500320A6 500Gb SATA drive.
>
> any suggestions?? so much for my backup scheme.. hm, I better turn  
> off the
> rsync, come to think of it..
> -- 
> Paul Cartwright
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