RE: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive
How old is the computer? It sounds more like a hardware issue then
software. If the power supply is freaking it can kill hard drives or a good
spike can cause damage to the hard drive's circuit board. The clicking
noise is usually associated with the drive heads being reset (slaming into
park), and is a common indicator that the drive is going bad. I haven't
heard of software ever causing this problem. Does it/did it happen when you
power the system up?
--Dano
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Federman [SMTP:dfederman@mco.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 11:00 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive
>
> 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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