Testing a HDD from a LaCie external array

[skinnylatte]

I am attempting to repair a Lacie 2TB external storage unit. It contains
4 x Hitachi 'Deskstar' 500Gb drives, apparently in a Raid0(?) array. I
have been told by the LAcie service dept that two of my drives are
faulty.

So I am testing the individual drives by plugging them into my slave IDE
slot via a removeable HDD caddy. No matter what combination of jumper
settings I use, the PC won't boot. I get the HDD failure error - even
though my primary drive is good (as soon as I take the caddy out, she
boots fine). I know the HDD caddy is wired OK as I can get it to boot
with another empty drive in there. Another clue - when I look at the
auto detect settings in BIOS, the type number for my primary drive does
not show properly. The cylinder. size info etc. looks OK, but instead of
showing up as [ST380021A] there are some random ASCI characters in place
of some of the characters.

Any suggestions? I need to work out which drives are good and which are
cooked.

TIA

 

[Rod Speed]

I am attempting to repair a Lacie 2TB external storage unit. It
contains 4 x Hitachi 'Deskstar' 500Gb drives, apparently in a
Raid0(?) array. I have been told by the LAcie service dept that two
of my drives are faulty.

So I am testing the individual drives by plugging them into my slave
IDE slot via a removeable HDD caddy. No matter what combination of
jumper settings I use, the PC won't boot. I get the HDD failure
error - even though my primary drive is good (as soon as I take the
caddy out, she boots fine). I know the HDD caddy is wired OK as I
can get it to boot with another empty drive in there. Another clue -
when I look at the auto detect settings in BIOS, the type number for
my primary drive does not show properly. The cylinder. size info
etc. looks OK, but instead of showing up as [ST380021A] there are
some random ASCI characters in place of some of the characters.

Do you get that with all 4 drives ? If you do, there must be something
about the removable HDD caddy that those particular drives dont like.

Any suggestions?

Try plugging the drives into the secondary IDE cable without using the caddy.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I am attempting to repair a Lacie 2TB external storage unit. It contains
4 x Hitachi 'Deskstar' 500Gb drives, apparently in a Raid0(?) array. I
have been told by the LAcie service dept that two of my drives are
faulty.

So I am testing the individual drives by plugging them into my slave IDE
slot via a removeable HDD caddy. No matter what combination of jumper
settings I use, the PC won't boot. I get the HDD failure error - even
though my primary drive is good (as soon as I take the caddy out, she
boots fine). I know the HDD caddy is wired OK as I can get it to boot
with another empty drive in there. Another clue - when I look at the
auto detect settings in BIOS, the type number for my primary drive does
not show properly. The cylinder. size info etc. looks OK, but instead of
showing up as [ST380021A] there are some random ASCI characters in place
of some of the characters.

Any suggestions? I need to work out which drives are good and which are
cooked.

Hmmm. Best put them on an IDE channel of their own.

Arno