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May I ask how you purchased your IBM drives? I've had several friends (and heard stories from other people on the internet) have their IBM drives, which they bought via mail |
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order, fail (my friends bought drives from datorbutiken.com). Maybe IBM drives are just more fragile than other harddrives? Drives which they purchased in a "real" store worked |
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just fine... Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's not. |
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- Andreas |
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2001-03-25 17:32:56, <drobbins@g.o> wrote: |
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>Hi All, |
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>Guess what? Another defective hard drive -- a bad block. This time, it was a |
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>new (Jul 2000) IBM 30 gigger. We're now running on an IBM 15 Gb drive and |
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>hoping that it will survive the next week :/ No data was lost. We seem to |
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>be losing 15Gb every two weeks... hopefully, IBM will replace these drives |
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>in time. |
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>I'm trying to find some reason for the multiple drive failures in such a |
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>short period of time. The only thing I can find is that both defective |
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>drives were manufactured at IBM's Hungary plant in ~Jul 2000. I'm guessing |
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>there's a batch of bad hard drives coming from there, maybe due to a batch |
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>of bad parts or low quality control at this particular plant? Anyways, I |
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>have a 45Gb drive (matching the one that failed a week or two ago, also made |
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>in Hungary at about the same time) and we'll see if *it* lasts. |
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>Remember: system failures always happen on Sundays |
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>Best Regards, |
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>-- |
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>Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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>President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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>Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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