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

["Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>]

On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Billy Holmes wrote:

> 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 :)

Probably was suffering from "stiction"  (google it)

Chad

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