Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: IDE Disk Problems | From | Allen Brady Montz <> | Date | 11 Feb 1997 21:21:34 -0700 |
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Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@veriweb.com> writes:
> > I had the same _exact_ problem with an 810M drive. It was because the > drive was a piece of junk. I know many people who have had similar > problems, even on non-linux machines, with Western Digital drives. > I imagine their testing labs used the equivalent of a DOS box to test > with. > > - -- > =-----------------------------------------------------------------------= > Jeremey Barrett VeriWeb Internet Corp. > Senior Software Engineer http://www.veriweb.com/ > > PGP Key fingerprint = 3B 42 1E D4 4B 17 0D 80 DC 59 6F 59 04 C3 83 64 > =-----------------------------------------------------------------------=
Me too. Same drive, same error messages, same horrible death noises. Fortunately, I was able to read the drive just long enough to get all of my stuff off of it. And I mean literally. Piece of shit. It was noisy in life, and worse in death.
-- Brady Montz bradym@cs.arizona.edu
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