Thanks Keith...going to go this route first....see what results I get.....
EGO II
On 04/05/2014 07:46 PM, Edward M wrote:
> On 4/5/2014 4:28 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
>> On 2014-04-05, Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Ok so I have a 500GB WD "Blue Scorpion" HDD that I'm trying to access via
>>> USB, when I boot up my CentOS laptop the lights on the external USB casing
>>> light up...and I can hear the drive making noise, but after a few minutes I
>>> hear an abrupt "click" and the drive doesn't do anything.
>> Is it actually the drive making the click sound? If so, it sounds like
>> a bad drive. You can throw the drive at the WD drive tester and see
>> what it reports--it won't necessarily find every physical problem, but
>> it usually finds the most egregious ones. (Unfortunately the WD tester
>> is a DOS program, so you can't run it under CentOS. You can download
>> the Ultimate Boot CD, which has a large collection of these programs,
>> including drive testers for Seagate, Hitachi, and other drive vendors.)
>>
>> --keith
>>
>>
>>
> EGO II, If it turns out to be a bad harddrive, it could still be
> under warranty with WD.
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