Sorry, but I have to ask, what was your n00b mistake? I don't want to do the same....
2005/6/21, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. > > -- > Colin > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
