>>>>> "Clive" == Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Clive> On (21/05/06 21:27), ben wrote: >> My 5400 rpm 80gb ATA drive in my powerbook just failed the >> 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? Clive> Unlikely. It is probably coincidence. Sounds like dodgy Clive> hardware. I'd say coincidence. The 40 Gb drive in my G4 laptop died a few months ago. Just under 3 years old. It never (gasp) ran Linux, only Mac OS X. /Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]