Large HD support issues - clunk of death?

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Loron" <peterl at standingwave.org>
To: "For Core releases users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:08 AM
Subject: Large HD support issues - clunk of death?


> I've got a K7S5A Pro mobo. It has been running FC1 for quite a while with 
> no issues. I wanted to run FC3 and have more space so I swapped out the 
> 10GB disk and put in a Seagate ST3300831A 300GB unit. It was properly 
> recognized during FC3 install. After completion of installation, I ran 
> some updates via RHN and apt-get. No problems. After sitting idle for a 
> few minutes, I did an 'ls' in the terminal. The drive made a "clunk" 
> sound, the disk activity light came on, and the machine was locked up 
> hard.
>
> This basic scenario has repeated itself several times. Once while 
> installing FC3 again, the clunk happened when I clicked Next after setting 
> the NTP server.
>
> Any ideas? Does this mobo and FC3 simply not play nice with this disk?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Pete

Run diags from Seagate (Seatools, I think they're called).  The clunk sound 
should not happen, I suspect you have a bad drive.

Thomas