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Hard Disk - S.M.A.R.T Analysis problems
Hi,
I have an 80Gb Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Disk, I have been unable to get this drive working as the "Master" HDD to boot windows xp, however it works fine when I set this to "slave" and boot from another HDD. I presumed the disk may have a few problems so I decided to use Drive Health & DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench to test the drive. Drive Health states everything is fine except the attribute named "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" it states the T.E.C (Threshold Exceeded Condition) as 9/17/2004 (although this figure seems to change quite considerably). I'm suprised if the HDD is failing already as it isn't all that old - an 80Gb bought brand new around a 1yr - 1 1/2yrs ago from Komplett for approx £90 - I've checked the warranty, unfortunately this ran out March 2004 therefore I cannot even return this drive if it does fail. I've read the helpfile and it states this in regards to the "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" UDMA controller performs an error checking on data it receives from HDD, ensuring that data was not damaged while transmitted over the cable. Each time the error is detected, controller requests a retransmission, thus slowing down the overall transfer speed. Lower values of "Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate" correspond to higher number of errors, usually indicating a cabling problem. While this suggests a cable problem, I have purchased two brand new 'rounded' IDE cables, so i'd be suprised if the cables itself are damaged in anyway. Does anyone use Drive Health or DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench - if so what experiences have you had with these programs and how accurately would you say each program is in regards to the T.E.C date (date of expected failure) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. |
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I used the SMART tool on my drives for a while.
The threshold limits seemed to yo yo around for days and days. Ok one day then not ok the next. I turned it off. ND "*** JD" wrote in message ... Hi, I have an 80Gb Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Disk, I have been unable to get this drive working as the "Master" HDD to boot windows xp, however it works fine when I set this to "slave" and boot from another HDD. I presumed the disk may have a few problems so I decided to use Drive Health & DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench to test the drive. Drive Health states everything is fine except the attribute named "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" it states the T.E.C (Threshold Exceeded Condition) as 9/17/2004 (although this figure seems to change quite considerably). I'm suprised if the HDD is failing already as it isn't all that old - an 80Gb bought brand new around a 1yr - 1 1/2yrs ago from Komplett for approx £90 - I've checked the warranty, unfortunately this ran out March 2004 therefore I cannot even return this drive if it does fail. I've read the helpfile and it states this in regards to the "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" UDMA controller performs an error checking on data it receives from HDD, ensuring that data was not damaged while transmitted over the cable. Each time the error is detected, controller requests a retransmission, thus slowing down the overall transfer speed. Lower values of "Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate" correspond to higher number of errors, usually indicating a cabling problem. While this suggests a cable problem, I have purchased two brand new 'rounded' IDE cables, so i'd be suprised if the cables itself are damaged in anyway. Does anyone use Drive Health or DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench - if so what experiences have you had with these programs and how accurately would you say each program is in regards to the T.E.C date (date of expected failure) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. |
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"*** JD" wrote in message
... Hi, I have an 80Gb Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Disk, I have been unable to get this drive working as the "Master" HDD to boot windows xp, however it works fine when I set this to "slave" and boot from another HDD. I presumed the disk may have a few problems so I decided to use Drive Health & DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench to test the drive. snip If you're using an 80 cable (ATA66 +) IDE Ribbon cable (which you should be), then have you got this drive you intend to use to boot from at the end? If its jumpered as cable select and you put it in the middle, it will be treated as a slave. Recheck the jumpers/cable positioning. If that fails, its best to use Maxtor's own freely available (from their website as a download) Powermax to diagnose your drive. It even has an option to write all zeros to it - completely obliterating the contents and starting again like a fresh from the factory state. Paul |
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"*** JD" wrote:
Hi, I have an 80Gb Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Disk, I have been unable to get this drive working as the "Master" HDD to boot windows xp, however it works fine when I set this to "slave" and boot from another HDD. I presumed the disk may have a few problems so I decided to use Drive Health & DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench to test the drive. Drive Health states everything is fine except the attribute named "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" it states the T.E.C (Threshold Exceeded Condition) as 9/17/2004 (although this figure seems to change quite considerably). I'm suprised if the HDD is failing already as it isn't all that old - an 80Gb bought brand new around a 1yr - 1 1/2yrs ago from Komplett for approx £90 - I've checked the warranty, unfortunately this ran out March 2004 therefore I cannot even return this drive if it does fail. I've read the helpfile and it states this in regards to the "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" UDMA controller performs an error checking on data it receives from HDD, ensuring that data was not damaged while transmitted over the cable. Each time the error is detected, controller requests a retransmission, thus slowing down the overall transfer speed. Lower values of "Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate" correspond to higher number of errors, usually indicating a cabling problem. While this suggests a cable problem, I have purchased two brand new 'rounded' IDE cables, so i'd be suprised if the cables itself are damaged in anyway. Does anyone use Drive Health or DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench - if so what experiences have you had with these programs and how accurately would you say each program is in regards to the T.E.C date (date of expected failure) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. My personal opinion is that if S.M.A.R.T. says that a drive has problems then it is time to run, not walk, to the nearest computer shop and get a replacement drive. For a second opinion get the Maxtor diagnostic tool from their web site and run it. If that produces a fault code then it is definitely drive replacement time. Good luck. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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FYI, I have the same HDD I bought 1 1/2 yr ago and had the same problem as
you did. Tried the Powermax diagnostic tool from Maxtor, got the diagnostic code and called them. Of course the warranty is over since Feb 04 and they confirmed I should buy a new HDD asap, which I did. Unfortunately since then, I haven't been able to boot again from my Maxtor HDD or have not either been able to access it to recover files... I wish you better luck! LB "*** JD" wrote in message ... Hi, I have an 80Gb Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Disk, I have been unable to get this drive working as the "Master" HDD to boot windows xp, however it works fine when I set this to "slave" and boot from another HDD. I presumed the disk may have a few problems so I decided to use Drive Health & DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench to test the drive. Drive Health states everything is fine except the attribute named "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" it states the T.E.C (Threshold Exceeded Condition) as 9/17/2004 (although this figure seems to change quite considerably). I'm suprised if the HDD is failing already as it isn't all that old - an 80Gb bought brand new around a 1yr - 1 1/2yrs ago from Komplett for approx £90 - I've checked the warranty, unfortunately this ran out March 2004 therefore I cannot even return this drive if it does fail. I've read the helpfile and it states this in regards to the "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" UDMA controller performs an error checking on data it receives from HDD, ensuring that data was not damaged while transmitted over the cable. Each time the error is detected, controller requests a retransmission, thus slowing down the overall transfer speed. Lower values of "Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate" correspond to higher number of errors, usually indicating a cabling problem. While this suggests a cable problem, I have purchased two brand new 'rounded' IDE cables, so i'd be suprised if the cables itself are damaged in anyway. Does anyone use Drive Health or DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench - if so what experiences have you had with these programs and how accurately would you say each program is in regards to the T.E.C date (date of expected failure) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. |
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Thanks for the info... looks like i gotta fork out for another HDD once i
get paid then Cheers for the advice tho "helene & luc" wrote in message . .. FYI, I have the same HDD I bought 1 1/2 yr ago and had the same problem as you did. Tried the Powermax diagnostic tool from Maxtor, got the diagnostic code and called them. Of course the warranty is over since Feb 04 and they confirmed I should buy a new HDD asap, which I did. Unfortunately since then, I haven't been able to boot again from my Maxtor HDD or have not either been able to access it to recover files... I wish you better luck! LB "*** JD" wrote in message ... Hi, I have an 80Gb Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Disk, I have been unable to get this drive working as the "Master" HDD to boot windows xp, however it works fine when I set this to "slave" and boot from another HDD. I presumed the disk may have a few problems so I decided to use Drive Health & DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench to test the drive. Drive Health states everything is fine except the attribute named "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" it states the T.E.C (Threshold Exceeded Condition) as 9/17/2004 (although this figure seems to change quite considerably). I'm suprised if the HDD is failing already as it isn't all that old - an 80Gb bought brand new around a 1yr - 1 1/2yrs ago from Komplett for approx £90 - I've checked the warranty, unfortunately this ran out March 2004 therefore I cannot even return this drive if it does fail. I've read the helpfile and it states this in regards to the "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" UDMA controller performs an error checking on data it receives from HDD, ensuring that data was not damaged while transmitted over the cable. Each time the error is detected, controller requests a retransmission, thus slowing down the overall transfer speed. Lower values of "Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate" correspond to higher number of errors, usually indicating a cabling problem. While this suggests a cable problem, I have purchased two brand new 'rounded' IDE cables, so i'd be suprised if the cables itself are damaged in anyway. Does anyone use Drive Health or DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench - if so what experiences have you had with these programs and how accurately would you say each program is in regards to the T.E.C date (date of expected failure) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. |
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I have a maxtor 6y080l0 80gb, and I am having problems as well. I also have
a maxtor 546??? 40 some gb hard drive. I have brand new IDE cables, and whenever the damned thing decides to, and I mean that literally, I will not have a master drive, and will still have the smaller drive, but like recently, I had to change the connector it was connected to on the IDE cable to get it found again, and then what do you know it cant find the smaller drive. I get no errors with maxtor utility, but I tell you this I will never buy another maxtor drive again! "*** JD" wrote in message ... Thanks for the info... looks like i gotta fork out for another HDD once i get paid then Cheers for the advice tho "helene & luc" wrote in message . .. FYI, I have the same HDD I bought 1 1/2 yr ago and had the same problem as you did. Tried the Powermax diagnostic tool from Maxtor, got the diagnostic code and called them. Of course the warranty is over since Feb 04 and they confirmed I should buy a new HDD asap, which I did. Unfortunately since then, I haven't been able to boot again from my Maxtor HDD or have not either been able to access it to recover files... I wish you better luck! LB "*** JD" wrote in message ... Hi, I have an 80Gb Maxtor 6Y080P0 Hard Disk, I have been unable to get this drive working as the "Master" HDD to boot windows xp, however it works fine when I set this to "slave" and boot from another HDD. I presumed the disk may have a few problems so I decided to use Drive Health & DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench to test the drive. Drive Health states everything is fine except the attribute named "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" it states the T.E.C (Threshold Exceeded Condition) as 9/17/2004 (although this figure seems to change quite considerably). I'm suprised if the HDD is failing already as it isn't all that old - an 80Gb bought brand new around a 1yr - 1 1/2yrs ago from Komplett for approx £90 - I've checked the warranty, unfortunately this ran out March 2004 therefore I cannot even return this drive if it does fail. I've read the helpfile and it states this in regards to the "Ultra ATA CRC Error Count" UDMA controller performs an error checking on data it receives from HDD, ensuring that data was not damaged while transmitted over the cable. Each time the error is detected, controller requests a retransmission, thus slowing down the overall transfer speed. Lower values of "Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate" correspond to higher number of errors, usually indicating a cabling problem. While this suggests a cable problem, I have purchased two brand new 'rounded' IDE cables, so i'd be suprised if the cables itself are damaged in anyway. Does anyone use Drive Health or DIY DataRecovery HD Workbench - if so what experiences have you had with these programs and how accurately would you say each program is in regards to the T.E.C date (date of expected failure) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. |
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