OT: Maxtor drive goes under

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:33:34PM -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I had a fairy new Maxtor 3.5" 60GB drive die recently. I am running Linux and so couldn't easily run Maxtor's MS Windows-only diagnostic software, but their web system gave me an RMA number anyway, and shortly after sending the old one in I got a replacement back. It seems to work. As for recovering data, I lost nothing. (And I hadn't done a backup.) This is because I was running software raid 1. There was a DMA timeout message in a log file, but the computer kept on running. In fact, had I not set up a script to check whether a drive died and send me an e-mail, I might not have noticed to this day that the drive had died. As for why it died, I am wondering whether I had something to do with it. It died *while* I was burning a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM drive was on the same IDE controller as the hard drive that died. The only thing I did different from previous times I have burned CDs was I told the CD to go faster. (I don't do that any more.) I am wondering whether the CD hiccoughed some too-high voltage back out the ribbon cable. The drive died in a "kinda work for a while"-mode. -kb, the Kent who is both impressed and a bit spooked that the drive failed while he was sitting at the computer and he never noticed a thing.