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Re: HD problems



At 13:13 23/10/01 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>A friend of mine is having problems with their computer so I went over to
>fix it and found something strange.  The hard disk seems to "sleep" during
>write operations.  Read is fine (fast actually).  IIRC, it's a Western
>Digital 4.?.  It does work, it's just slow.  The OS doesn't matter, Linux
>or dos/win98.  As a test I did this:  dd 2.5MB from /dev/zero to the HD (a
>FAT partition).  Works fine.  3MB and it "sleeps".  5.5MB and is works (I
>found this out when I got my block size wrong with dd).  Now, let me
>define "sleep":  It sounds a bit like the HD is thrashing, but the HD
>light is off (and the light does work).  The OS will politely wait until
>it's done and then continue.  Win98 took over 2 hours to install and this
>is a P300.  Anyway, any ideas?  Almost dead HD or IDE controller?

If you say that it took over 2 hours to install win98 on P300 computer, 
means, by a new H.D. ;)
 From what I have experienced in this situation, changing the H.D. will 
give the solution.

>-Cedar
>
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