[aclug-L] Re: UHOH!!!!

[Thomas Bloom <tom@xxxxxxxxx>]

what type of drive do you have, and how old is it? You might be able to
send it back.

At 01:16 AM 3/1/00 -0600, you wrote:
>well, i ran fsck on the drive, and still come up w/ those errors... the
>badblocks prog comes up w/ a couple bad blocks...  i'm guessing you're
>probably right...  damn...  well, i'll look into Fujitsu and Seagate...
>found some decently priced ones by them on pricewatch already...
>
>yeah, the Quantum Fireball ST 3.5 (2.1gig) came w/ my computer, and i
>picked up the other two along the way...  only now have had trouble w/ my
>Maxtor, and the other Quantum is yet to do anything bad...  atleast my
>home directory is on the good Quantum, and windoze is on the other...
>getting ready to burn a backup of anything on my bad hdd before i do
>anything else...
>
>is it possible when i get my new drive (whenever that may be) to copy
>everything on this drive to that, or would i be better off just starting
>from scratch?  i've worked 2 years on getting this system just the way i
>like it, and now the hdd crashes...  
>
>jesse
>
><<<Linux lloydix 2.2.14 #1 Sat Jan 22 04:29:13 CST 2000 i586 unknown>>>
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>On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:
>
>> In my experience, Quantum and Maxtor are (sorry to say this...) the worst
>> brands still in existance.  :-)  Connor was worse, but they're (thankfully)
>> out of business now.
>> 
>> Of the two, I'd say Quantum is better than Maxtor usually.
>> 
>> I really like Fujitsu for IDE hard drives, although I'm sure you can find
>> someone who will swear they suck, too.
>> 
>> I also like Western Digital and Seagate for IDE drives.  I have less
>> experience with SCSI.  I think Quantum may actually make some decent SCSI
>> hard drives (I have a 2.2gb Quantum SCSI hard drive I got for free... have
>> no problems with it :-)
>> 
>> I got the 10.2gb Western Digital drive that I use in my workstation about
>> 6-8 months ago for $140.  Then about 3-4 months ago I got a 17.2gb Fujitsu
>> drive for another computer... spent $135 on that, I think. :-)
>> 
>> Before you buy a new drive, go ahead and run fsck on the drive... it's
>> possible it's just FS corruption.  But don't hold your breath is my advice.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:43:20AM -0600, gLaNDix wrote:
>> > what would you reccommend for a good brand of hard drive?  i've got 2
>> > quantums and a maxtor in this system...  one of the quantums sux (i'm on
>> > my 5th one of that model)...  i'd like to get something b/n 15 and 20
>> > gig...  and something that's not too hard on the wallet...  EIDE is fine
>> > w/ me
>> > 
>> > jesse
>> > 
>> > <<<Linux lloydix 2.2.14 #1 Sat Jan 22 04:29:13 CST 2000 i586 unknown>>>
>> > 
>> > Marge:     Homer, you're his father.  You've got to reason with him.
>> > 
>> > Homer:     Oh, that never works.  He's a goner!
>> > 
>> >               Bart the Daredevil
>> > 
>> > 
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