Alen,
Well I went and downloaded Seagate's SeaTools diagnostic software and
ran the long write to and check the drive. I tried all of the test a
few times on both drives and other options and the Seagate seatool
application reported a problem of a failure with the drive in question
bad sector or something any way got a red dot buy the drive.
I got tired of all this and just removed the drive it was rather hotter
than I thought it should be when I got it out. At least hotter than the
master drive also a Seagate but half the size was. The two used drives
from ebay showed up in the mail today so I will try them. If I get the
same problem then I guess its not the drive and will have to mess with
other stuff I know even less about Bios I guess???. Lol
May try that writing zeros thing. I did see it in the application but
did not know what it would be for. I had tried to fill the disk with
data just adding a few large applications and some cd-rs of photo but
got a right error partway through. What does the zeros do I thought
that was the way the Seagate application blocked out the sectors?