On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:23:16 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob)
wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:29:15 -0400, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>first it needs to be
>>determined if the drive shows signs of life
>
>The drive works on my son's XP machine.

Signs of life in YOUR system. For all we know, the drive
might've been damaged in transit- keep in mind that not all
parts failures were manuacturing defects, the others had to
happen at "some" later point.


>
>>>Seagate crap isn't worth the powder
>>>to blow it to Hell, so I really don't want the piece of shit in my
>>>computer to begin with. But my son offered it, and so I am obliged to
>>>try it. Actually I am glad it does not work.
>
>>Good, then we're done.
>
>I hope so. I specifically asked my son for a used WD. He knew better
>than even bring a Seagate into my house. But I think he grabbed the
>wrong disk and now realizes that there was no spare WD.

You've gone mad. There's no reason to reject a Seagate so
quickly.



>
>I was just hoping that there was something simple here, but as I found
>out, nothing is simple with Seagate.

We were suggesting you use the master/slave because of a
potential Western Digital issue, not because it's a Seagate.

>I once had a tape drive and it
>conflicted with the CD player. No amount of configuring would take
>away the conflict. But no one could find it - not Mitsumi (CD player)
>or Seagate. That's the kind of crap you have to put up with when you
>fool around with Seagate - so it is not surprising to learn here that
>my disk problem falls into the same category.

Tape drive <> hard drive
I doubt Seagate is your problem, I have plenty and no higher
rate of problems than other brands. The two primary
suspects are your removable caddy and the WD drive's
jumpering.