Thus the older Deskstar drives have earned themselves the name of 'Deathstar' drives. Yours is still under 3 year warranty BUT Hitachi is taking control of most of IBM's drive assets and it'll take some time to get your drive taken care of. No more advanced shipment from IBM. You're looking at about a 4 week downtime so I'd just buy another drive in the meantime and use that for a spare when you eventually get it back. As a side note, alot of the new IBM branded hard drives are not in fact IBM so the fear factor is reduced there. I'd recommend anybody not buying the 40 or 60GB GXP drives though.
--- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The drive serial number is: IC35L040AVER07-0, which happens to > be one of > those 40 GB IBM 60 GXP drives that everyone eventually has the > very same > problems with... eventual bad sectors and lost data. > > I purchased the drive 10-Dec-2001, so over 2 years ago. I'm > hoping it's > one of those still under 3 year warranty. I got it from > buy.com. By > searching for that serial number, I found that others have > been able to > send their drive back and get another (different) one. That > overcomes > my problem of a bunk drive. > > Now for the problem of somehow getting as much of my data off > of there > as possible. Anyone played with dd_rescue? > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ > > -Rob __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
