Hmmm, maybe the drive is harmed? I have a 15 gig
IBM Travelstar, and it's *very* quiet and works
well. I did have problems with erroneous
size values in HDToolbox, but I believe this
is common with the 1200 IDE.
IBM notebook drives are high quality products,
and there is no relation between them and the
infamous "DeathStars", so I find it strange
that you should be having problems. In any
case I hope you get it working.