Yeah. It's pretty bad. I'm looking at the invoice from 12/05/2003. It was purchased separately from the 8890.
It sounds like it goes into a seek cycle and it keeps repeating. It's set as my D storage drive and I've already backed everything up.
Back to what it sounds like. It will repeat and repeat. This is where my computer locks up solid.
Sometimes I can access for long periods of time, say 1 hour, before it locks. I had a heck of a time backing up 80 gb worth of storage over usb.
When it powers down the drive sort of whirrs and zzzz. One time it sounded exactly like a cricket. I tried to get a recording of it but the fan would not kick off. I even ran a room fan on it for a while. It doesn't seem hot...Perhaps that's related? So my drive is going out? Since it's been over a year am I SOL or what?
Perhaps the drive controller is bad? Does anybody know of this issue occuring in 8890's? I wish I could access the drive so I could do my own troubleshooting but no such luck now.
Any ideas?
Update:
I slid the drive back in. It's the drive bay behind the cdrom so it's pretty easy. The tough part is taking the time to remove the battery to cut all power. So I boot and it eventually gets to a "no operating system found" message. This drive has no operating system. Only storage. It's in the second bay which by default is primary slave right? So the screen before that and after the POST says "Ultra100 BIOS is not installed because there are no drived attached". Alright. I went into setup and checked settings and reset the ESCD. Same thing upon restart. I removed the drive. Now it's fine. As long as the drive is farther than 6 inches from the computer and has no power the 8890 runs fine.
It sounds like it goes into a seek cycle and it keeps repeating. It's set as my D storage drive and I've already backed everything up.
Back to what it sounds like. It will repeat and repeat. This is where my computer locks up solid.
Sometimes I can access for long periods of time, say 1 hour, before it locks. I had a heck of a time backing up 80 gb worth of storage over usb.
When it powers down the drive sort of whirrs and zzzz. One time it sounded exactly like a cricket. I tried to get a recording of it but the fan would not kick off. I even ran a room fan on it for a while. It doesn't seem hot...Perhaps that's related? So my drive is going out? Since it's been over a year am I SOL or what?
Perhaps the drive controller is bad? Does anybody know of this issue occuring in 8890's? I wish I could access the drive so I could do my own troubleshooting but no such luck now.
Any ideas?Update:
I slid the drive back in. It's the drive bay behind the cdrom so it's pretty easy. The tough part is taking the time to remove the battery to cut all power. So I boot and it eventually gets to a "no operating system found" message. This drive has no operating system. Only storage. It's in the second bay which by default is primary slave right? So the screen before that and after the POST says "Ultra100 BIOS is not installed because there are no drived attached". Alright. I went into setup and checked settings and reset the ESCD. Same thing upon restart. I removed the drive. Now it's fine. As long as the drive is farther than 6 inches from the computer and has no power the 8890 runs fine.
