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From: drobbins@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Another defective hard drive
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:13:29
Message-Id: 20010326091329.A923@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Another defective hard drive by Andreas Jonsson
1 On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:10:36AM +0200, Andreas Jonsson wrote:
2
3 > May I ask how you purchased your IBM drives? I've had several friends (and
4 > heard stories from other people on the internet) have their IBM drives, which
5 > they bought via mail order, fail (my friends bought drives from
6 > datorbutiken.com). Maybe IBM drives are just more fragile than other
7 > harddrives? Drives which they purchased in a "real" store worked just fine...
8 > Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's not.
9
10 That's a likely explanation -- I purchased all my drives via mailorder from
11 buy.com and mwave.com.
12
13 --
14 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
15 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
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