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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:44:51
Message-Id: 476F540F.60308@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages by "Hemmann
1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2 > On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600
5 >>
6 >> Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This
9 >>> seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company
10 >>> as Maxtor I wonder?
11 >>>
12 >> I've been told Hitachi bought up IBM's drive manufacturing operation a
13 >> few years ago, but am not sure if it's true. I think of all three as
14 >> inferior drive manufacturers that aren't to be trusted, if it can be
15 >> avoided.
16 >>
17 >
18 > Maxtor got bought by Seagate
19 >
20 > Hitachi bought IBM's harddisk operations.
21 >
22
23 So they are two different drives then, manufacturer wise? Makes me
24 think about those errors even more.
25
26 Strange.
27
28 Dale
29
30 :-) :-)