01-26-2006, 12:01 AM
hal, possibly -- but I'm not sure that anything is definitely wrong with it (yet)... and if as you say, I rolled the dice and lost, I didn't lose very much ;-)
OWC Larry, drive was formatted in his machine; I just put it directly into my enclosure (no reinitialization was necessary), and as I say, it's tested fine so far, and has worked fine except for the one lockup. Maybe that could be the issue? Initialization on his machine, and he had some problem with his IDE bus such that somehow it now locks up while idling? Should I reinitialize it with it in the enclosure?
I am now running the third cycle of one hour long integrity check using Drive Genius -- e.g., the drive will have been through sustained read/writes for three hours total -- and so far, no problems (!). If it passes this, I will let it idle overnight and see what happens...
OWC Larry, drive was formatted in his machine; I just put it directly into my enclosure (no reinitialization was necessary), and as I say, it's tested fine so far, and has worked fine except for the one lockup. Maybe that could be the issue? Initialization on his machine, and he had some problem with his IDE bus such that somehow it now locks up while idling? Should I reinitialize it with it in the enclosure?
I am now running the third cycle of one hour long integrity check using Drive Genius -- e.g., the drive will have been through sustained read/writes for three hours total -- and so far, no problems (!). If it passes this, I will let it idle overnight and see what happens...