Hi !
Since i am in contact with PCs (for over ten years now) i found out that
any harddrive manufacturer produces more or less reliable/useable products
- except one and that is Maxtor. To me Maxtor drives are just cheap shit
that are hardly worth their money. So it doesn't need Linux to destroy a
Maxtor drive, they will do it by themselves. Besides that i doubt that it
has anything to do with the OS.
Nevertheless there is something positive about Maxtor to say, their
guarantee works better than i expected. Last december i sent in a broken
2.1 GB drive and received a brand new 6.4 GB drive and Maxtor didn't make
any trouble at all.
So what i recommend to you is that you go to their website (www.maxtor.com
i think) and fill out the guarantee request assuming that the drives your
are talking about crashed within the three year warranty time (pretty keen
that they give such a long time, hehehe). They request that you send it in
packed in a special antistatic and fluffy parcel. I took one of these old
antistatic bags that my soundcard was in and wrapped it up with wrinkled
newspaper and some styrofoam (yea, they say that is not allowed, but the
drives are broken anyways) in an old sixpack box. Further information is on
their website. Too bad that they send back a Maxtor drive again then. :/
Greez
Dave
>A friend on mine said he has had two Maxtor hard drives destroyed from
>Linux. He says he can not format them now. He also said he had called
>Maxtor, and they said they were getting several of these a week. Has anyone
>had this? I have not yet.
>
>Louis
>Louis J. Dupree Jr. W4NRG
>3015 Englewood Dr.
>Kinston, NC 28504
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