This weekend I decided to upgrade my computer to the latest MS OS. In the process I erased my RAID array which is comprised of two IBM 75 GXP's. To do this I used IBM's drive fitness test. I first went through and did the advanced check of both drives and the results came back good/green. Then I set about to erase both disks. The first one erased just fine, the second seemed to erase fine, but the subsequent disk check came back bad/red and I got this nifty code:
Serial YMGM6435
Failure: 0x70 - Defective Device
Additional: 0x61
TRC for RMA
7061F555
Fun huh? Well, this was a bit disturbing (but to tell the truth I was expecting the drives to go bad one day or another). So I re-ran a quick disk check and got a different error code:
Failure code 0x73 - Defective Device - Excessive Shock
TRC for RMA
73000CAB
I had been having trouble with one of the drives not initializing on cold boots. I however had attributed this to a specific Asus A7V133 BIOS that supposedly had trouble with drive initialization. Well, this probably turned out not to be the case.
Since I was in no mood to RMA an IBM drive, even though the error code said to do so, I decided to keep on going. So I booted up what was supposed to be the bad drive and sure enough the drive clicked and clicked on reboot and was not detected by the controller. In a minor moment of genius I thought, lets try switching the power connector. I did this and the drive seemed to spin up just fine and was detected without problems
So at this point I am thinking that I may have a bad power connector which may have been responsible for the problems. But I can't figure out why the same drive in the same boot sequence passed the advanced drive analysis but on another occasion failed it. Maybe I answered my own question, but I'm not sure.
Oh, and to throw another monkey into the wrench, the board I am running on has a few bad traces (that I destroyed during a misconcieved case-modding adventure) which result in the HD IDE LED not working--if this effects IDE drive detection or initialization in any way I do not know.
I guess I am not looking for any answers to this problem, there are a few more issues here that I don't have the time to ge into. But, I just want to add my name to the list of the fellow Anandtechers that have had problems with their 75GXP's.
I will be getting a new PS after Anand's PS review comes out in a few days and see if that helps. I currently am running a 300W Hipro 300SN which is only rated for a 1000 MHz Athlon by AMD (for whatever that means--I am running a 1200 Athlon).
So I'll get back to you all on my troubles with the good'ol 75GXP.
Serial YMGM6435
Failure: 0x70 - Defective Device
Additional: 0x61
TRC for RMA
7061F555
Fun huh? Well, this was a bit disturbing (but to tell the truth I was expecting the drives to go bad one day or another). So I re-ran a quick disk check and got a different error code:
Failure code 0x73 - Defective Device - Excessive Shock
TRC for RMA
73000CAB
I had been having trouble with one of the drives not initializing on cold boots. I however had attributed this to a specific Asus A7V133 BIOS that supposedly had trouble with drive initialization. Well, this probably turned out not to be the case.
Since I was in no mood to RMA an IBM drive, even though the error code said to do so, I decided to keep on going. So I booted up what was supposed to be the bad drive and sure enough the drive clicked and clicked on reboot and was not detected by the controller. In a minor moment of genius I thought, lets try switching the power connector. I did this and the drive seemed to spin up just fine and was detected without problems
So at this point I am thinking that I may have a bad power connector which may have been responsible for the problems. But I can't figure out why the same drive in the same boot sequence passed the advanced drive analysis but on another occasion failed it. Maybe I answered my own question, but I'm not sure.
Oh, and to throw another monkey into the wrench, the board I am running on has a few bad traces (that I destroyed during a misconcieved case-modding adventure) which result in the HD IDE LED not working--if this effects IDE drive detection or initialization in any way I do not know.
I guess I am not looking for any answers to this problem, there are a few more issues here that I don't have the time to ge into. But, I just want to add my name to the list of the fellow Anandtechers that have had problems with their 75GXP's.
I will be getting a new PS after Anand's PS review comes out in a few days and see if that helps. I currently am running a 300W Hipro 300SN which is only rated for a 1000 MHz Athlon by AMD (for whatever that means--I am running a 1200 Athlon).
So I'll get back to you all on my troubles with the good'ol 75GXP.