I hate IBM Harddrives!!!

[EclipseJP]

I had two die at once with a raid setup. I had these things for almost a year with no probs then bam both dead. I am stuck with these untill at least the warrenty is up. By then there will be serial drives out so Ill get some of those. Now i am stuck with my 1.01 gig Fujitsu thats older then well you know and all I can do is go on the internet. THIS SUCKS.

[BaldHeadedDork]

That's weird because the 60GXP had a great reputation for reliability. (The 75GXP and 120GXP are another matter...)

Have you tried reformatting either drive on the IDE-1 or IDE-2 channel? In RAID 0 if one drive dies it will look like you've lost both, but the same applies if your RAID controller takes a dump.

Before I tossed the drives in the trash, I'd install both as D: and E: drives on your regular IDE channel and make sure the problem isn't just one drive or your motherboard.


Good luck-

BHD

[FTC]

Hi, agree with Bald except... it's the 120GXP (the newest one) that has the best reliability reputation. 60GXPs have 'good' reputation also, but not as good. 75GXPs have the bad reputation.... And I'm not saying this because I have 2 120GXP's... it´s because of this reputation (almost lack of failure reports with 120GXPs) that I bought those.... and so far so good.

Regards
FTC

[Johnny Knoxville]

I'm not suprised the 60GXP's had nearly as high failure rate as the 75GXP's
RMA them and get 120GXP's which are reliable

[Big_Tex]

Try this out found it on a diff forum sorry I was at another forum. I know this is the only forum there really is but try it out.
quote:
I have found a way of recovering a faulty IBM hardrive.
Scenario:-
The hard drive goes belly up, the dreaded clicking sound and no amount of scandisks or formating will recover it.
Sound familiar ?
Well get yourself to the IBM site and download the drive fitness test http://service.boulder.ibm.com/stor.../dft32-v230.exe <http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/dft32-v230.exe> (Windows flavour)
and the IBM feature tool
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/stor...ool-install.exe <http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/ibmftool-install.exe> (Windows flavour)
Other OS's catered for on the IBM Drive site.
These should each create a bootable floppy.

Run the drive fitness test.
My HD made the most horrible squealing noises at this point, came back with sector errors, interface errors and unknown errors !?????
I tried to wipe it with the zero all sectors option, with no sucess. Note: this is also useful if you have an NTFS partition and you want to get rid of it !.

This should tell you if your drive is indeed duff, normaly, it would be time to relegate it to the trash bin.
Not necessarily so.

Now boot up off the other disk (IBM feature tool).
In the options, switch both read and write ahead caching off, set the acoustic level down to minimum, this I believe slows the head seek movement down and I also had the power saving set to HD slow down rpm in power saving mode.

Now Boot off the Drive fitness disk again and zero all the sectors, with luck, it will now work.
Why? I can only assume that the drive loses track of where it is on the platter due to a dropout of formatting information on the disk, and with the high speed of the head positioning arm, it misses the track.
Slowing everything down gives it a chance to find the correct track sector etc.

You may be wondering why I suspect this is the problem?
I had a complete system failure using this HD some time ago, luckily I managed to track down the faulty file and replace it. Upon closer examination of the file, I found that a track worths of zeros had mysteriously appeared in the middle of it. It would indicate, that whilst writing the data to the HD, it skipped a track, but upon reading at bootup, it read it alright.
Also the squealing noise is the head positioning system desperately trying to move the heads to the next track, which the HD knows exist, but does not know that the head mechanism has already got to the physical end of it's travel, since it has skipped tracks.

If it zero's OK, do an advanced test just for good measure.
Boot up off the IBM feature tool disk, set all the caches back on and the speeds up to full, acoustic levels to loudest (max performance).
Once done, you should have a fully working IBM Hard disk again!.

I have ran test after test on mine and am using it again without a single glitch !.

At the moment, I don't know if this is a temperature related fault so I have fitted mine into cooldrive 2 cases just in case, it may be worth testing a drive with the temperature monitor utility on one of the bootable floppies to see what sort of uncooled temperature these drives can get too, then artifically heating the drive to the same temp, NO NAKED FLAMES !, then run Scandisk or some other utility to carry out a surface test on the Drive.
It may be worth leaving the acoustic level down a notch or two if the HD plays up again, this will of course slow the seek times down a little, but I hardly think you would notice it.

Hope you have some success.

[EclipseJP]

Hey Baldheadeddork I have tried all of the Above. I already rmaed them. Thanks big tex. Ill try that for next time.

[Overclocker456]

I had a 75GXP and a 60GXP die in less than a year.. now I'm on my third.

[clonos]

Sorry to dissapoint you guys, but my 75GXP 30GB baby runs smooth and quite for almost 2 years. I am very pleased. :)

[Overclocker456]

Originally posted by clonos
Sorry to dissapoint you guys, but my 75GXP 30GB baby runs smooth and quite for almost 2 years. I am very pleased. :)

Yeah, but too bad you can't play any games in greece..lol.. how are you handling that anyway??