Re: [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?)

[Billy Holmes <billy@gonoph.net>]

Christian Parpart wrote:
> However, I once have (accidently!) thrown down one harddrive of mine from 
> within 60cm distance down while moving to a new tower/rac; I were nearly 

many moons ago, I had a 300 meg IDE drive that I bought for a dollar - 
and this was when drives sold for about a buck a megabyte. A lady 
brought in her computer with a broken harddrive. It would not spin up, 
but after I accidently dropped it on the table, it started working. We 
replaced her HD, and I asked the owner if I could buy the broken HD for 
a dollar.

I stuck it in my BBS machine at the time, and it lasted 2 years for me. 
It would work great so long as I did not power down the machine, then I 
had to tap the harddrive, or bang it with a pen while it was trying to 
power up. One day the power went out, and when it came back on, the HD 
would not spin up despite my "tender care" - it had died. I knew that 
day would come, so I had current backups.

They just don't make them like they used to :)
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