Problems with Maxtor Diamondmax 8 30GB drives?

dk Babbled on and on and on about:

HI,

I bought a Diamondmax 8 30GB drive for a new system I`m building for a
friend, but the drive would not format past 4%.
I tried it in my own system but again would not go past 4%, so I used
the Maxtor diagnostics software and the result it gave an error.

I sent the drive back as faulty and ordered a new one exactly the same
model, but when I installed it, not only did I get the same problem
but at exactly the same point 4%. Now my first thought was it must
be the mainboard(ASUS A7N266-VM), cable or something but the result
was the same in my own PC which is an ASUS A7V266-E.

Anybody any idea what is going on, is it possible there was a faulty
batch of drives and I `ve been unlucky? Or am I doing something
silly. I `ve build 15-20 systems and never had any such problems with
harddisks.

TIA.


Des.



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Jumpers all good? Did you try a different cable? use an 80 pin? If that
doesn't work, try disabling you're primary IDE and use the secondary. If
that doesn't cure it, then probably a bad batch. It's been known to
happen. I have had a couple of problems with the 30GB. I don't know if
it's because of the oddball platter setup or what.

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HI,

Thanks for the replies.

I tried cables, jumpers as master or slave etc but same result.

I have now done a low level format, took forever:-( but that seems to
have worked, it seems to have reduced the drive size by about 500MB
with bad blocks.

I`m now running a thorough scandisk with read/write test which so far
has been OK but it started at 5.30pm and it is now 10.15pm and about
95% done, wouldn`t like to do this with a 100GB drive :-)


Des.