I too have had no problems with the Maxtor drive that I am aware of.
After thinking about this a bit longer though it occurred to me that I
installed this drive right before I installed Mandrake the first time. This
is also the drive that I installed Mandrake on. Windows is installed on the
first drive. The first time the MB had problems it lasted a bit longer, and
never died completely. I was dual booting and only using the Linux/Maxtor
drive periodically. The second MB barely lasted 3 months then died. This
time the Linux/Maxtor drive was being used exclusively. Another coincidence?
I don't know, but atleast it gives me something to try.
At any rate, thanks everyone for your help. I didn't intend to turn this
list into hardware support, so I will let this thread die here.
KM
----- Original Message -----
From: "poogle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
> Another Hmmm,
> I have 5 HDs (in caddies) 1 x Samsung has an old MD 7.2 install still on
it
> and another Samsung with "something else" on it which my other half
insists
> on using :-)
> My MD 8.1 install is on a Fujitsu and I use a Maxtor as a backup in case I
> break something.
> I also have a Seagate which I use for crashtesting so it gets a fair
amount
> of abuse.
> Both the Maxtor & Seagate drives came from computer fairs, were labelled
> "untested buy at your own risk" and cost next to nothing, surprisingly,
> despite the warning label both have and are giving reliable service on my
> home-made AMD K6-2 450 machine and I've had them for a couple of years and
> put them to many different uses in that time.
>
> On Friday 21 December 2001 18:37 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Thursday 20 December 2001 23:55, you wrote:
> > > I have seen a hard drive (if I remember correctly it was either a
maxtor
> or seagate) where almost the same symptoms happened, judgeing form your
list
> of symptoms (this was in a winders box, about the time windows 98 came
out).
> I never did know "exactly" why the hard drive gave those symptoms, but
> changing the hard drive finally cured the box. (I had changed even the
power
> supply in the box, as well as fans added and all kinds of stuff) in spite
of
> good readings from it after about the third MB in 3 months. never had a
nother
> problem with the box, put the HD in a totally different box and two
> months later, had an additional "spare" cpu since the MB was trashed
> again.
>
> > >snip
> >
> > Hmm, that's interesting, one of the HD's is a Maxtor, not sure what the
> > other is.
> >
> > KM
>
> --
>
> Poogle
> Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those
irritated
> by it)
>
>
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