I'm formatting now (again). The last one I gave up on after formatting it three times, although I think I killed that one. It was RMA'd with no hassle, but I only get a "30 day or until the end of the original drives" warantee. That's another question, can hooking up an ATA66 cable with the primary in the middle and secondary on the end heat a drive to death? Sizzle hot? If not, the first drive died on it's own. 
Anyway, the second one is acting like the first now. It's the same model and everything, ATA33 13GB. I had it on an ATA66 cable as slave to a Maxtor, it lost it's partition and files just today. Disk Management refused to work with it (Write Failed error) and partition magic would either see it as blank or not see it at all. Same as the old one. And FDISK thinks it's empty when this happens. I went through this three times on the old disk.
I'm formatting the "new" one for the second time now, on a second computer. Using an ATA33 (old style) cable, autodetect for the drive settings.. as if that should matter as far as reliability goes.
Should I expect a continuing "crap out" cycle of RMA'ing?
Anyway, the second one is acting like the first now. It's the same model and everything, ATA33 13GB. I had it on an ATA66 cable as slave to a Maxtor, it lost it's partition and files just today. Disk Management refused to work with it (Write Failed error) and partition magic would either see it as blank or not see it at all. Same as the old one. And FDISK thinks it's empty when this happens. I went through this three times on the old disk.
I'm formatting the "new" one for the second time now, on a second computer. Using an ATA33 (old style) cable, autodetect for the drive settings.. as if that should matter as far as reliability goes.
Should I expect a continuing "crap out" cycle of RMA'ing?
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