New Drive Problems!

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Okay, I'm cursed! Asus K8N-E Deluxe mobo. Western Digital SerialATA 200gb
primary drive. I get an identical drive for my storage, format it and it
runs slower than the first. Bios shows its running in UDMA 5 insteasd of
UDMA 6 like the primary. And I cant change it. So, I RMA the drive, get a
250gb version, it reports Udma 6 just fine but won't format past 66%!!!!
Another bad drive from ZipZoomFly??? What are the chances??? Im going back
to using stones and cave drawings!!!!

Rick

 

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Rick & Darlene wrote:
> Okay, I'm cursed! Asus K8N-E Deluxe mobo. Western Digital SerialATA
200gb
> primary drive. I get an identical drive for my storage, format it and
it
> runs slower than the first. Bios shows its running in UDMA 5 insteasd
of
> UDMA 6 like the primary. And I cant change it. So, I RMA the drive,
get a
> 250gb version, it reports Udma 6 just fine but won't format past
66%!!!!
> Another bad drive from ZipZoomFly??? What are the chances??? Im going
back
> to using stones and cave drawings!!!!
>
> Rick

It may have something to do with the 137 GB limit. Most of the format
software disks that come with new drives have ways to address it. I
don't trust any of them and I will split the drives larger than 137
using FDISK into two or more logical drives. Try that. I don't think
that the drives are bad. They've become disgustingly reliable.

Arnie