More specifically: issues with a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160Gb 8Mb cache model.
The drive is barely a week old and I'm having trouble with the BIOS not recognizing it once every 4-5 reboots. It'll work fine 90% of the time and then suddenly decide to drop down to floppy disk like read/write speeds; WinXP is reporting IDE channel timeouts and errors during paging operations every few minutes.
I'm leaning towards considering this a faulty drive: the one before was a DiamondMax Plus 9 80Gb; also UIDE133, connected on the same IDE cable, same motherboard, same OS. Only difference in the system is the new HD.
If anyone has any thoughts on how to decide one way or the other I'm very willing to try. It took 4 weeks to get this drive delivered; the option of returning it, reinstalling everything on the old drive, waiting for the replacement, then reinstalling everything yet again on that one isn't a pleasant prospect.
The drive is barely a week old and I'm having trouble with the BIOS not recognizing it once every 4-5 reboots. It'll work fine 90% of the time and then suddenly decide to drop down to floppy disk like read/write speeds; WinXP is reporting IDE channel timeouts and errors during paging operations every few minutes.
I'm leaning towards considering this a faulty drive: the one before was a DiamondMax Plus 9 80Gb; also UIDE133, connected on the same IDE cable, same motherboard, same OS. Only difference in the system is the new HD.
If anyone has any thoughts on how to decide one way or the other I'm very willing to try. It took 4 weeks to get this drive delivered; the option of returning it, reinstalling everything on the old drive, waiting for the replacement, then reinstalling everything yet again on that one isn't a pleasant prospect.