25 Sep
2006
25 Sep
'06
1:08 p.m.
On Friday 22 September 2006 13:06, Bowie Bailey wrote:
The problem does sound external to the disks. Someone else suggested the power supply. I wouldn't suspect both cables to have problems, so that's probably not an issue.
Power supply issues can do real damage to the drives, as well. I had a pair of 250GB drives that have hard errorred sectors thanks to a power supply 'glitching' on me. The drives still work fine otherwise, but they have several dozen sectors each that will never be usable.
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