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Okay, so I've had a couple raptors laying around for a while (in casings, protected) and I finally got a SATA card to drive them. Well, they wouldn't work in the enclosure I was using, so I hooked them up direct, and one had a loud clacking noise and the other caught fire...



(I'm RMA'ing them, still under warranty fortunately)

.....caught ..... FIRE?! 0_o

fire ... fire ... hehe ... fire's cool.

Sorry sorry. Too much B&B.

Wow, it actually caught fire? Impressive failure for a PC component.

Now where's that \"worthless without pics\" smiley...

Top Gun wrote:Now where's that "worthless without pics" smiley...

x2

As requested.



Seriously though, if it caught fire, there was either the wrong components inside or too much power was hooked up to it. that or wires were hooked up wrong.

Duper wrote:As requested.

x2!!!!

thats some weird shiz, if a HDD caught fire? ive heard of PCB Components burning up, but actually caught on fire? lucky it didnt take the whole PC with it

No pics, wouldn't matter anyway, the damage wasn't visible, but there sure was alot of smoke coming out of it, and it was smelly.

I just find it odd that I had 2 dead raptors just like that, I've treated them gingerly and they've been kept in enclosures.

Perhaps there was some sort of power supply issue or lightning strike that you didn't know about?

new psu, nothing else fried

Well, if you bought the drives at the same time from the same place it would make sense I guess.

You didnt by chance attach a molex power connector AND a sata power connecter that does along with the data connector at the same time?

Top Wop wrote:You didnt by chance attach a molex power connector AND a sata power connecter that does along with the data connector at the same time?

Yes I had a coworker who did this once and the same thing happened. Fire. lol

nope, didn't have them both connected, that'd be a noob mistake

Viva la exploding hard drives!

Well, just got my replacements in, they sent 74gb drives! Yahoo!

Old ones were 36gb

heheh, nice. They must be getting rid of the 74 GB stock. Too bad they weren't out of em, then you would have gotten a 150...

Well, one of the 74gb drives is toast - I figured out that the problem was in fact the hot-swap bays I was using are bad. So gonna have to rma that one, but the other one works, so now my new problem is Fedora 6. I've gone through the install from the DVD (twice) but I can't get that dang drive to boot linux, the first error was soemthing along the lines of \"error loading operating system\" and now there is no msg, it just hangs. I'm really a linux noob so I don't have a clue what is wrong.

can you select the controller as the primary boot device in your bios?

if not, you might need to use a throwaway ide drive to manage the booting.

I can make it boot from the SATA drive ( Abit NF7-S )
but the linux install won't start.

did you let the installer install a boot loader on the correct drive(it should be /dev/sda)

You also want to install it to MBR, not superblock.

I don't know, the installer was pretty automatic, partitioned and formatted the drive etc All I did was select which drive it installed to.