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Originally Posted by ScottW

Last week I bought two 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9's and set them up in RAID 1 on an Abit KD7-RAID board. For the first 5 days or so, both drives ran fine.

On day 5, I came home and found that one of the drives in the array had failed, so I powered down, and rebooted. I then heard a series of beeps coming from the system - they didn't sound at all like normal BIOS error beeps and they seemed to be coming from the failed drive itself. I removed the drive, connected it to the power supply, and confirmed that yep, the beeps were coming from the Maxtor drive itself.

I checked maxtor's site - they claim that the drive does not contain any sort of speaker/audio output device. I recorded the beeps (http://www.techimo.com/maxtorbeeps.mp3). The drive won't even spin up at powerup. Any ideas here or did I get some sort of wicked prototype . I bought both drives from googlegear so they aren't eval/sample models.

The only thing I'd use a maxtor for is a doorstop. I've had 6 of their drives all fail (4 of them were in raid configs). 5-6 years ago maxtor was a good company, not anymore. Friend has about a half dozen maxtor paper weights as well.

The only company I trust these days with PATA/IDE drives is Seagate. Not had a problem with any of them. Plus when one company - maxtor goes to a 1 year warranty and seagate goes the other way - 5 year, I think that's rather telling.

-d