From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RLbW9-0005Hk-V1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:10:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 795B821C170; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4B821C170 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9D268040F for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:07:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:07:50 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral? Message-ID: <20111102140750.3b23b46b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4EB04146.8030207@gmail.com> <4EB09A16.4050608@gmail.com> <4EB09E72.3030702@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs69 (GTK+ 2.24.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/8w.b3QZfpJjzHyAbQbq40kd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 697862ec-7c99-4ba3-af0c-a016148c0ca8 X-Archives-Hash: 026b5029de1b444078c0830fa120593b --Sig_/8w.b3QZfpJjzHyAbQbq40kd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:02:03 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > > I think that means you have a nice new door stop. =C2=A0My first drive = to > > ever fail that I recall. =C2=A0I still say windoze screwed up my drive. > > =C2=A0It lasted about 3 days in the windoze rig. =20 >=20 > It may also be that the Windows rig's PSU is unhealthy. Or even the mains supply to that PSU if it is in a different location. I had a lot of hardware failures after moving house, including several expensive SCSI drives. They stopped after I bought a UPS. --=20 Neil Bothwick Pedestrians come in two types: Quick or Dead. --Sig_/8w.b3QZfpJjzHyAbQbq40kd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6xTrYACgkQum4al0N1GQO3QwCeJIWtAM2m854kGoGNe0nj9CY1 W6gAn0up6CSqFf4sGUfaLKQzVS9hakDP =I54Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/8w.b3QZfpJjzHyAbQbq40kd--