my 10g deskstar has worked fine for years (I did have some issues shortly after purchase, but I did work them out...) It was $200 when I bought it, you figure out how old it is :)
Jamie On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:28 pm, Mr O wrote: : 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 -- No microsoft products were used to produce this message. EUG-LUG Mailing List: http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
