On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 12:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > I've got a APC BakUPS 500, had it for a long time ;p Normally, > just leavin the house for a day or so, I'd leave the system runnin. > But this last time I was gone for 8 days, so I shut it down. It's > been shutdown that long before. 'Sides, if a HDD can't stand to be > off, get 'cold' (room temp), then restart .... it's defective IMO.
I agree totally; and I think the same principle applies to the rest of the system also. > Also, FWIW, when I called IBM for an RMA, I asked if there were > known issues with FS's other than vfat, specifically ResierFS and > XFS. The tech didn't even know what I was talkin about, but he went > and asked and came back with a 'none known'. > > ...and also FWIW, both the IBM and the Maxtor replacement were/ > are ata/100 7200rpm 2mb buffer IDE drives. hdparm -t for the IBM was > never better than 36mb/sec, often nearer to 30. The Maxtor > consistently gets 40mb/sec. ....and sells for damn near half what > I paid for that IBM just 10 months ago, and it's 10GB bigger. > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas I'm still a little leery about maxtor reliability. What's your take on that? LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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