[X4U] Hard drive or hard drive controller gone (mirrored doors G4)

[Daly Jessup]

At 1:51 PM -0500 1/9/06, John Kiss wrote:
>On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:
>
>>Thanks for your quick response. I've heard of the DeskStar's alternate
>>appellation (Deathstar). This is the first one of perhaps half a dozen I've
>>used that's failed, if indeed that's the problem.
>
>I've got a dual 1.25 MDD and my hard drive (also an IBM Deskstar) 
>died a few months ago. Almost the same symptom as you have. Many of 
>the apps seemed to hang giving me the impression that  it was a 
>software problem. My second internal also was not mounting every 
>time I rebooted. Once the clicking started I knew otherwise and 
>started to back up my data. I replaced the defective IBM drive and 
>now my second internal is behaving 
>properly._______________________________________________

I assume everyone is aware that Hitachi some time ago bought IBM's 
hard drive business. All DeskStars have been from Hitachi for at 
least a year. There ARE no IBM drives any more.

Daly