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 1E8Mma-0006uC-VH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:49:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PIjJu3028860; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:45:19 GMT Received: from daytona.theebizshop.net (eBiz-Colo104-60-16.OneCall.Net [216.37.60.16]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7PIbjfn009864 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:37:45 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by daytona.theebizshop.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22C933B2A for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:39:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from daytona.theebizshop.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (daytona.theebizshop.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06022-06 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:38:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.254.206] (eBiz-Colo104-60-67.onecall.net [216.37.60.67]) by daytona.theebizshop.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A2233B2B for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:38:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <430E1042.2010603@chumpland.org> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:38:58 -0500 From: Alec Shaner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) 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] /home becoming readonly every night References: <1124913594.14865.4.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <430D0D35.2000803@gmail.com> <20050825125509.C780.NICK@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at theebizshop.net X-Archives-Salt: 75864d7e-e3c1-4f90-bd71-a4e023a6acc3 X-Archives-Hash: c990babad2e8682093567a63a8c70202 A. Khattri wrote: > I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had > one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. > > Because of this, we now have a "Seagate-only" policy for hard-drives - > they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three > year warranty. > I also had a bad experience with Maxtor, though I admit I've only bought one in my life. But friends have also reported problems with Maxtore too. Ended up with the same read-only problem as the OP. It predictably occurred weekly after the emerge sync in cron. I use Seagate for SCSI, and WD for IDE/SATA and have never had a problem with either. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list