By "failed" I mean it physically broke. After 2 years of use, the drive
failed for the first time. My distributor sent me a new one (after about 4
months waiting!), and this one failed after only a few months. In the lead-up
to the failure I had many bad blocks cropping up. It made clunky and
high-pitched scratchy noises. It sounded as if the drive arm could not keep
itself up and it kept falling down, scraping something in the process. My
third drive appears to be working fine after a few months of use, but I'm
being cautious...
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:35, Jeff wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > That's funny... My 12GB Bigfoot TX drive has failed on me *twice* this
> > year, taking a lot of data with it (although I was more prepared the
> > second time round). Fortunately, I am under warranty until June 2001.
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:18, Jeff wrote:
> > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Hello list
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb)
> > > > > > > > > Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above?
> > >
> > > Iv'e been using a Quantum bigfoot 12.7 gig hd since Slackware 3.5 till
> > > Mandrake 7.2 (now). Never had any problems. At one point it booted
> > > Win98, BeOS, Slack 7, and Mandrake 7.0. Besides being a tight fit it
> > > all worked well for me. Now it's just running 7.2 beta (a few package
> > > revisions short of official) and all is well. Hope this helps you.
>
> When you say failed do you mean the drive just quit working? I havent had
> anything like that happen to me (same drive) and my drive is around 2 years
> old. I dont think it would make a difference but this drive came factory
> with an hp pc.
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