[NBLUG/talk] More hard drive problems

[Walter Hansen]

Not related at all, but of hard drive interest.

I picked up some IBM/Hitachi 80g 7200rpm drives at HSC the other day and
they were really quiet. I was very supprised. They were rather quite
sitting on a desk filling up with backups. I doubt I'll be able to hear
them at all inside a case.


> On Monday 03 October 2005 06:18 pm, Lincoln Peters wrote:
>> However, I ran Maxtor's PowerMax utility on the hard disk earlier today,
>> and it was able to somehow repair the problem (!).
>
> Cancel that; although it passed every test I ran on it (both from PowerMax
> and
> from Linux), it won't hold a partition table.  I tried creating one using
> cfdisk, saved it, and aside from a cryptic kernel message (which
> disappeared
> quickly and doesn't seem to appear in the kernel logs), it appeared to
> save
> correctly.  However, since the kernel message made me suspicious, I
> reopened
> the disk using cfdisk, and it reported NO PARTITION TABLE.
>
> Looks like I'll be giving Maxtor customer service a call tomorrow!
>
>
> --
> Lincoln Peters
> <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>
> Beware of low-flying butterflies.
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