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 1E2t5D-0003Vq-3c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:05:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7AG3fBc003709; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:03:41 GMT Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AFvMGq009044 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:57:22 GMT Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1E2sxp-000MnM-P6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:58:02 -0600 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 (Apple Message framework v733) In-Reply-To: <42FA220F.6020609@gonoph.net> References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <42F821EF.6050400@asmallpond.org> <42F8F27F.5030303@gonoph.net> <200508092046.23474.trapni@gentoo.org> <42FA220F.6020609@gonoph.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <600D2122-CE57-4A7E-8D0D-471C204E7308@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:57:57 -0600 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Archives-Salt: 4065223f-969f-4e69-b3e8-21229f0a9c26 X-Archives-Hash: 6c06ec3ab9534896e021dde7b7169edc 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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list