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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years |
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> without problems... |
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> Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). |
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If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they replace it. |
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What I hate most is those Maxtor drives that dies just one month after |
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the warranty expired. |
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Also, Seagate's website has some nice diagnostic tools. My ex-roommate |
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had this habit of slamming the doors. And The vibration sent through |
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the thin wood paneling jerked my desktop just enough to start |
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producing dead sectors. The Maxtor just started crapping out after the |
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first dead sector is found, and there's no getting it back to life. |
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The replacement Seagate suffered the same problem until I added some |
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precautions (dampening the contact of computer with desk and desk with |
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wall). But the diagnostic tool just swapped a few sectors from the |
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back-up sectors and I'm all fine. |
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W |
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"`Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' |
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These two words are usually coupled together in the Old |
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Pink Dog Bar." |
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- Ford in a spot of bother. |
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Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13 days, 21:37 |
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