From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2svQ-0004ut-14 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:55:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7AFrPw3016436; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:53:25 GMT Received: from NS1.CHANGES.COM (ns1.changes.com [198.252.33.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AFmudY023974 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:48:57 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by NS1.CHANGES.COM (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id j7AFff1g029872 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:41:42 -0400 Message-ID: <42FA220F.6020609@gonoph.net> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:49:35 -0400 From: Billy Holmes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050808) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?) References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <42F821EF.6050400@asmallpond.org> <42F8F27F.5030303@gonoph.net> <200508092046.23474.trapni@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200508092046.23474.trapni@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f0f12f61-df1b-4225-a6ed-bf8a89b5c2bb X-Archives-Hash: 77107eff8ef09ff8a7d24ab656384955 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 :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list