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  1. Sarpedon

    Problem setting user-defined hds/cyl on K7S5A-PRO

    Recently I had experience with a couple of ECS K7S5A-pro motherboards bought a few months apart, as part of a $79 2400+ Athlon XP bundle deal at Fry's. One of the upgrades would've gone much more smoothly except that when I went to enter User Define heads/cylinders info the heads/cylinders/etc...
  2. Sarpedon

    Very, Very Slow Performance

    And I'd bet it was a Maxtor too, wasn't it? After reading your story, I'd have put a $100 down on betting it was a Maxtor. No offense to Maxtor, I still buy them, but it's spooky how I keep seeing these slow-read problems on them as they go out.
  3. Sarpedon

    Slow Sequential Read, but Write is fine. System pauses

    P.S. - During my follow up call to a different tech at Maxtor today, after explaining that the drive passes all the PowerMax tests with no code and will low level format etc. - but is simply too slow to use since for example it has now been about 24 hours since I started the FAT32 format and...
  4. Sarpedon

    Slow Sequential Read, but Write is fine. System pauses

    I've had several Maxtor drives fail in this way this year, perhaps many out there are. One was a 30gig DiamondMax Plus 40 model 53073U6 (Warranty ends Nov 03) and an older 20gig 7200rpm Maxtor, both IDE. Both drives would eventually pass all the PowerMax tests as well as a low level format...

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