----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: Re: RAID Problems
> You would think so, wouldn't you? However, one of my Netgear > FA310TX's that I've been using for about 2 years suddenly stopped > working a few weeks ago. It wouldn't work in Win98, Linux, or in > another machine (running a fresh install of Win98). Win98 saw it and > simply said that it wasn't working properly; Linux actually spit out > some error messages. The link LED on my switch never went on. > > Netgear just replaced it under there lifetime warranty. Precisely my point. Although 2 years is a long time for a design flaw to become evident, that was in fact the reason for the failure. You are not the only one who has had a Netgear card stop working. That is why I now use Linksys. While this is an unusual case, it is generally true that once something has worked well for a while, it will tend to keep working, _provided you don't stress it by exceeding its specifications_. Further to my point, when it failed, it stopped working completely. It worked, then it didn't. Rich Cloutier President, C*O SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
