On (21/05/06 21:27), ben wrote: > My 5400 rpm 80gb ATA drive in my powerbook just failed the other day. > It was making a weird buzzing sound whenever I tilted the laptop, > eventually it got so bad that the drive wouldn't read without rocking > my laptop back and forth. My linux partition was formatted with ext3 > journaling, so my question is was there something to my setup that may > have endangered the lifetime (2 years) of this drive?
Unlikely. It is probably coincidence. Sounds like dodgy hardware. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
