On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:
> Munish Chopra wrote:
> > I just finished reading this:
> >
> > http://www.storagereview.com/jive/sr/thread.jsp?forum=1&thread=13134
> >
> > ...it's a message board at a pretty decent storage site. There aren't
> > too many great posts, but what seems to be pretty consistent is that the
> > problems arise (in part) because Windows 98 and ME shut down too fast -
> > so I'm assuming this has to do with the "Yes I wrote the data (ha ha I'm
> > lying)" 'feature' that has been discussed lately. A few people have just
> > had it show up when writing to the disk...
>
> One interesting theory on there was that the drives were overheating and
> somehow damanging themselves. Although this doesn't seem too likely,
> I wonder if it isn't a catalyst.
>
> Truthfully, that board was all over the place, and I'm not sure I trust
> any of the posts on there any farther than I could throw them.
Yeah it was quite Slashdottish. I just summed up the few things that
were confirmed by several people. Since reading that, I saw the
overheating theory on aother board too. I've been happy with my IBM
drives so far, but if a drive fails just because it gets a little bit
warm, I'll be looking other places. I must admit, something or the other
stinks of brain-damaged engineering...
--
-Munish
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