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**ScottW** · November 30th, 2002, 05:12 PM

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.

November 30th, 2002, 05:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
ScottW Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: USA Posts: 4,988	Musical Maxtor 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.