Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 at 23:22:39, Richard Zidlicky wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:47:21PM +, Bill Waugh wrote: Al Feng wrote: Before you try anything drastic, you may want to try the drives in a different PC case ... your power supply may be dodgey and not

Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:51:49AM +, Tony Firshman wrote: W98 died at the first sign of problems - blue screen saying cannot read from drive C - and that was it. W98 never even started to load from then on. Under Linux, things continued apparently normally for a very long time. The

Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-24 Thread Dilwyn Jones
: Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23 December 2001 15:47 Subject: [ql-users] Why me Anyone got any theories on multiple hard drive failures, two have gone west in the last two weeks. The first was of little importance as it was merely used as a transfer

Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-24 Thread Bill Waugh
Al Feng wrote: Before you try anything drastic, you may want to try the drives in a different PC case ... your power supply may be dodgey and not putting out enough amperage -- a particularly plausible potential hazard with the trim/slim profile cases which have a 150 watt or smaller PS.

Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-24 Thread Bill Waugh
Timothy Swenson wrote: In the server world, you always let recently shipped servers come to room temperature before turning them on. They are usually get cold during shipment and firing them up right away could cause thermal stress, so they are allowed to sit a number of hours in the

Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-23 Thread Peter Graf
Hi Bill, don't think you're alone! I now have little faith in this drive ( 2.1 meg Cavier ). Just wondered if anyone had any ideas why this could of happened. Caviar is Western Digital I guess. Also had a lot of bad luck with harddisks. 3 died in a PC. 2 Quantum and 1 Western Digital. None

Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-23 Thread Bill Waugh
Peter Graf wrote: Hi Bill, don't think you're alone! I now have little faith in this drive ( 2.1 meg Cavier ). Just wondered if anyone had any ideas why this could of happened. Caviar is Western Digital I guess. Also had a lot of bad luck with harddisks. 3 died in a PC. 2 Quantum