I named this drive Pepito, and in the end, it really did end up being the spawn of Satan.
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squee#Pepito for details)
It took 32 hours to move 11gb of data off the drive.
The entire time, my system was nearly comatose. I couldn't even use Adium.
At least it afforded me plenty of time to work on music and clean my apartment.
The drive is a Maxtor D540X-4K, 5400rpm, 2mb cache, 12ms seek.
I've read in a couple places that this particular drive is known for this sort of thing.
What a pain in the butt.
Thanks for all the info, Franklinstein.
Like you said, I think it's failing. I'm going to check it with some kind of diagnostic tool later to make sure... then pull it apart for the metals. Some things just deserve vengeful disassembly.
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squee#Pepito for details)
It took 32 hours to move 11gb of data off the drive.
The entire time, my system was nearly comatose. I couldn't even use Adium.
At least it afforded me plenty of time to work on music and clean my apartment.
The drive is a Maxtor D540X-4K, 5400rpm, 2mb cache, 12ms seek.
I've read in a couple places that this particular drive is known for this sort of thing.
What a pain in the butt.
Thanks for all the info, Franklinstein.
Like you said, I think it's failing. I'm going to check it with some kind of diagnostic tool later to make sure... then pull it apart for the metals. Some things just deserve vengeful disassembly.