Re: [CentOS] OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years

2009-05-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 23:39 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the > > Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 > > years The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it > > boo

Re: [CentOS] OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years

2009-05-24 Thread Robert Nichols
Lanny Marcus wrote: > My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the > Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 > years The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it > boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is > i

Re: [CentOS] OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years

2009-05-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.05.2009 um 00:10 schrieb Lanny Marcus: > My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the > Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 > years What did stop you from replacing it 2.5 years ago, BTW? What's the warranty-policy for OEM-drives of

Re: [CentOS] OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years

2009-05-24 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, Sounds kinda personal to me > when booting from the > Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 Oh. Never mind (bad humor). > years The box is a Compaq EVO D300v f