Western Digital lockup on defrag

[Brian Myers]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to defrag my WD36400 hard drive? I have reinstalled, formatted, run WDDiag, and finally WDClr and nothing has changed. The drive works fine in a PII-300 system with an LX chipset, but locks up when defragged in a AMD K6-233 with a VIA VP3 chipset. I have used Win98 and Norton's defrag.
Western Digital has been less than helpful. I saw at least 4 people with my problem posted, and WD's response to all of them is, "the problem doesn't exist, try something else".

[jokostel]

i have the SAME HD and the SAME CHIPSET on a FIC VA503+ and you pretty much hafta install the HD controller patch and the AGP patch.....
if not already done so....check via's website for the patches.....
http://www.via.com.tw/

[Brian Myers]

Thanks for responding.
I did install the HD controller patch and AGP patch from the CD, but I will go and try one from the VIA web-site.

[Brian Myers]

Thanks jokostel, I tried what you said, and now everything works perfectly.

[Pushrod]

Ahhhhh.....
It's always nice to see a happy ending.

Good job,Joko. I'll try to remember that myself just in case.

[jokostel]

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[This message has been edited by jokostel (edited 04-24-99).]

[jokostel]

no problem Brian....
here is my e-mail if ya need any help at any time...:
jokostel@usa.net