Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BS> G'day Roy,

 RJT> Maxtor's web site,  in particular,  is useless for the 
 RJT> purpose as it calls the model number 8.4G when I punch 
 RJT> it in on the opening page.

 BS> They shouldn't be proud of that, I did have such, after some years
 BS> it said funny sounds and then it wasn't working anymore :(

 BS> It did unfortionally cost me my whole fidonet system, and server
 BS> configuration.. 

 BS> So I never trust maxtor anymore.-

Over and over again I'm seeing people use one drive failure for an excuse
to turn completely against a company,  in one echo or another.  I don't
plan to do that here...   :-)

I have 3-4 1G drives kicking around here.  Bought one of them new (whenever
THAT was),  and picked the other ones up used,  and heaven only knows what
they've been through.  I haven't really kept up with associating particular
drive sizes with specific time periods,  but the 6.4G Maxtor I have sitting
here shows a manufacture date of 1997 -- the 1G units must be older than
that. Which means a *LOT* of continuous service.  I can't complain about
that!

Further,  as I was about to leave this room last night I watched midnight
maintenance kick off,  and noticed that I was having problems,  getting
"critical error on drive L" (from the Maximus FB program, 
actually).  This is the same drive that prompted me to start on dealing
with Maxtor to begin with, only while the other problems I had with bad
sectors,  etc. were near the start of the drive,  this is in the last
partition.  Apparently two of my file areas are lost,  the directories
being trashed enough to become converted to files (?) and the contents
showing up as "lost clusters".  So I spent some time copying the
rest of the contents off to other drives,  and I'm going to have a go at
using those utilities,  later on,  when I've finished the process.
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