On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years > without problems... > > Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). >
If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they replace it. What I hate most is those Maxtor drives that dies just one month after the warranty expired. Also, Seagate's website has some nice diagnostic tools. My ex-roommate had this habit of slamming the doors. And The vibration sent through the thin wood paneling jerked my desktop just enough to start producing dead sectors. The Maxtor just started crapping out after the first dead sector is found, and there's no getting it back to life. The replacement Seagate suffered the same problem until I added some precautions (dampening the contact of computer with desk and desk with wall). But the diagnostic tool just swapped a few sectors from the back-up sectors and I'm all fine. W -- "`Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar." - Ford in a spot of bother. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13 days, 21:37 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
