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.-

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

Oh okay, but unfortionally I've heard of many of these situations.. BTW one
of them is a guy who bought a new 80 GB SCSI maxtor disk.. His machine ran
in 40 days without beeing shutdowned. 

He needed to reboot after the 40 days, and afterwoods he didn't see the
disk working agian :(

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

Indeed!

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

Uf :-( That's kinda bad..

I would never trust that disk anymore if I were you..

Regards,
Bo


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