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[bgc99]

I've got a WD Caviar Blue 500GB EIDE drive that was newly installed in a system that bit the dust right after it was installed. So I wanted to test it before using it in a new build.

I have an older system that had Windows 98SE installed on it that still works, so I disconnected the hard drive in it and connected the WD. I booted up with the lifeguard floppy and ran the long test.

The long test starts by running the short test and then asks if you want to continue and I did. The drive passed both short and long tests with no errors so I decided to wipe the drive with the lifeguard tool writing 0's to the drive.

During the 0 write, I got an error code 0112 that says it's an IRQ timeout. I'm not sure what to make of this since it passed both tests before I tried to write the 0's.

Anyone have an idea what I should do now?

Thanks,
BGC

 

[hennessy1]

Read the suggestion here.
http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/errorcodes.asp#v10
Try with a different sata cable and if the error repeats then try a different port if it still repeats either RMA it or return it depending on when you bought it.

 

[bgc99]

The drive is PATA, not SATA. The drive is currently on Primary master. Will it work to put the drive on the secondary IDE channel as master with no other drives connected? Secondary master is currently CDROM.

BGC

 

[bgc99]

Nevermind. The pc is so old that it is only seeing approx. 8GB of the drive. The tests are not valid either way using this sytem.

BGC