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

[Jesse Kaufman <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

tho't of that, BUT will they refund me, or send me another Maxtor?  i
really don't want to get into the same situation i'm in w/ Gateway and the
Quantum drive i've replaced 5 times now...  i'd rather have to trash this
one & fork out the cash for a GOOD one than have to replace my drive every
other year... : ^ )

          <<< Jesse Kaufman (kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >>>

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Thomas Bloom wrote:

> 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>>>
> >
> >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
> >
> >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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