NEVER buy an IBM 75GXP Hard Drive

Okay, so I was fiddling around with the hard drive Matisaro sent me. A 46.1Gb IBM Deskstar 75GXP. Now, after the trouble, it works, but i'm still pissed off...

*trouble*

earlier tonight, we were talking over the phone, trying to get the bitch to work, realizing I did the dumb mistake of plugging the IDE cable in backwards, essentially reading from the motherboard, and the HDD being the master. Big mistake. Fixed the problem by flipping the cable, then made another problem. Accidently flipped the floppy power cable. *startup* *FIRE!!!* so, afterwards, I found my floppy dead, and my Antec 430 watt truepower partially damaged, but workable.

*end of trouble*

point being, don't waste the time dealing with a [-peep-] 75GXP...it isn't worth it

I need my Hammer now to bash some newbies

Agreed....that was user error......and it sux...but hey......we all make mistakes =)

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LoL
i thought u said u got it working ??

Does the thing get detected by the BIOS ??

if it does, send it to me, i can fix it....

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i know a way to do it =)

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true...but whos to sya they'll give u a 60GB 120GXP ?

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Ok I can see how you could get an IDE cable backwards, and I can see how you could get it flipped, but how in the world did you flip a power connector. You would have to do a heck of lot of forcing to make a molex connector fit upside down.

<b>I have so many cookies I now have a FAT problem!</b>

It does to man, you had the same issue with your 20 gig hdd as well I was on the phone at the time!

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quez, honestly dude, dont blame the hdd!

It works perfectly, something else is the issue!

I send quez the drive, he emails me and says it dosent work, I talk to him on the phone and diagnose the issue(backwards ide cable).

He fixxes cable, but inadvertantly(via the floppy) causes a fire lol! No damage to hdd or mobo, only a melted floppy wire and dead floppy drive, I continue to troubleshoot.

He tries the hdd on his raid controler, works but gets random reboot, I tell him to try ide 4, he does and the drive is working properly, still full of pirated movies like I sent it, all is well.


He places a 20 gig hdd on the same cable(after removing the 45 gig hdd) and gets the random reboot issue again with the 20 gig.


Clearly it is something other than the hdd, I get the impression he is thinking of sending me back the hdd, I would take it, im not mean, but honestly the hdd is working fine!


Moral of the story, we had an interesting day, but please dont blame the hdd(and by extension me) for something it did not, nay, could not have caused.



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Well, after we were done talking, I took out my Maxtor again, and popped in the IBM 75GXP on IDE 1, and tried formatting it. Same odd restarts. Maybe it is just the raid controller on my motherboard. Not sure anymore.

I need my Hammer now to bash some newbies

Ahh quite interesting!

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=13597" target="_new">-MeTaL RoCkEr</A>

Well, I made a mistake, and luckily didn't fry my whole Athlon system. Anyway though...yes, the stupid thing, after closer inspection had no guide rails for the power connector. All my other drives had the one way Molex plugs, which I never messed up (as of yet)

I need my Hammer now to bash some newbies

hehe, i kind of find it funny, I have 2 IBM GXP 120's and they've worked perfectly (one 60 and one 80 gig) So far i've never had a real problem with any of the IBM drives i've gotten, although i've never touched the 75 series

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