A. Khattri wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Colin wrote:
Right now, I'm having PartitionMagic 8.0 check each sector of the disk,
to see if it was a hardware problem. (It'd better not be, I bought this
disk not even a year ago!)
If its Maxtor I would not be surprised...
Nope, Western Digital. Their drives are pretty good. I've got an old
700 MB drive from 1994 that's still alive and seeking. Besides,
PartitionMagic found no errors.
I used to use a Maxtor, though. That thing was 7200 RPM, ATA/133 and
very thin, so it got very hot very quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if
it failed. Now it's running the family computer, which is fairly
well-ventilated. I stuck a heatsink/fan on the bottom of the drive just
in case; it runs much cooler now.
This filesystem wipeout was my fault anyway. I made a n00b mistake
involving /dev... let's not go off-topic.
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Colin
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