Storage

SMART Drive Failure Imminent
Hi. I ran the Everest utility and on my backup hard drive I have the following with a red "x" next to it... 0A Spin Retry Count 223 215 215 31 Pre-Failure: Imminent loss of data is being predicted How serious is this? This is a back up disk with nothing important (unless my primary disk goes bad, too). ... 13 Feb 2006 09:42

SATA vs PATA: in external case
I need to add 500GB of external storage to my system. I am considering (amongst others) the Hitachi 7K500 drive, which is available in either SATA or PATA. The SATA would appear to be the faster drive, based upon the specs, including the fact that the SATA version has a 16MB cache while the PATA has an 8MB cach... 16 Feb 2006 07:38

Are 2.5 inch ata-6 drives backward compatible?
My hard drive just died and I'm buying a new one but I noticed that newegg only has 2.5 inch drives that are serial, or ata-6 or ata-7 and I don't know if my current dell inspiron 8500 can handle an ata-6 drive. will these work does anyone know even if my system can only handle ata-5 and below? thanks. ... 13 Feb 2006 09:42

IBM NetVista 8305-TWS Fan not working please help
I opened my PC to update from 128 to 276 RAM memory and I noticed that just the Power Supply fan is working, the system and CPU fans are not working. I double checked connections but all seem to be OK. Is normal for this PC to do that? Will those fans work when needed? Please help Thanks in advance. ... 9 Feb 2006 07:56

Fujitsu MHS2060AT HDD Repair
Hi all. My Fujitsu MHS2060AT 2.5" HDD has malfunctioned. It is no longer visible in BIOS. I'm fairly certain the problem is electronic and some surfing suggests it may be a dodgy controller chip. Has anyone anyone any experience of repairing this (or a related) drive and could share some tips? Regards. ... 8 Mar 2006 08:46

Slow backup with Backup Exec 10D
Okay, so I just installed a new Dell Powervault 124T with LTO-2 autoloader. Got it all hooked up and installed the new Backup Exec 10d. Loaded the magazine up with tapes and off I go. I did a backup-to-disk of my exchange server. Took about 3 hours to produce a 33 gig backup. Great! Okay, so let's backup the backup... 7 Feb 2006 16:14

Seagate drive check utility reports "errors in metadatea file records, other errors critical errors in metadata.."
After running a drive checking software from seagate, I got the message that two of my drive - the primary drive and another logical drive have: "errors found in index" "errors found in metadata file records" "other errors found" The other drive gave the following message: "failed with critical errors" ... 3 Feb 2006 00:23

meaning of "rdisk()" in boot.ini file
ABSTRACT This investigation shows that the "rdisk()" parameter in the boot.ini file represents a hard drive in terms of its displacement from the head of the hard drive boot order in the BIOS. The value of n in "rdisk(n)" expresses this displacement, where n is an integer value starting with 0, and where ... 3 Feb 2006 03:28

repeated "disk needs to be checked for consistency" at start up
Hi Just recently, each time I start my PC I get the message "one or more disks needs to be checked for consistency..." I have two HDD's in my system. When this first started it checked several partitions but in the past few days it only wants to check Drive "L". Each time no errors or bad sectors are found... 2 Feb 2006 17:42

137 gig limit
If I get a 200 gig hard drive, is the 137 gig limit an issue? And if I create two 100 gig partitions, is the 137 gig limit still an issure? And when does the 137 gig limit ever become and issue? Running WinXP, P4, SP2, Phoenix Bios Plus. Thanks in advance -- Dave C. ... 30 Jan 2006 13:53