WD200EB disk in Mac G4 MDD

[Steven]

Hello,
I installed a 20 gig Western Digital WD200EB drive 
<http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=13> in a G4MDD in 
the front bay.

I formatted the disk and the volume mounts. I can read/write. But soon I 
found it is behaving erratically. Sometimes when writing a large chunk 
of data to it it seemed get stuck, the files on the disk seemed to 
disappear and sometimes the disk would disappear altogether. Restarting 
would not get the disk to mount. Shutting down and starting up again 
would bring the disk back with all the files on it. Now it is making 
irregular clicking noises.

Now I'm wondering, is this a type of disk I can't use in this Mac or is 
the drive having problems of itself? Or is something else going on? Any 
advise appreciated.

greetings,

Steven


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