I'm affraid this is a bad news.  Normally, you only have three
possibilities: HDD itself, the cable or mobo.  So far from what I've seen, I
would direct point to the mobo.  WD has a diag program to download, you
should run it first, the best idea is the run the test from a known good PC
with the suspected cable and HDD.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Desperately slow format


> A used but fairly new 40Gb Western Digital drive is taking around 30-35
secs
> to format EACH PERCENT, in other words, almost 55 minutes to format the
> whole drive.

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