Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

[Fabien <fabien@cur-archamps.fr>]

shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
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> > I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and running Debian Linux.  Each drive started with a clicking noise, several weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead.  WD replaced the first drive without question.  Before I replace the second, could Linux be causing this?  The machine is a Gateway P-II 350.
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> Had this happen in Windows too.  But theoretically, yes it could be a flaw in
> the ide code not handling a WD exception case.  However lots of people use WD's
> and few report problems.

I have 2 WDC for 3 years.
2 year ago, before I start using linux, 2 hd crash in 2 months.
But, after this, I have no problem with them.

I have installed linux at home 4 months ago.

So, I don't think linux could causing this...

Fabien.