-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 09 November 2003 9:26 am, Dan Gordon wrote: <snip> > > Not likely, hard drives are a sealed unit and if dust did get in then it > would be a defective drive. I have had two drives go in the last 6 > months the way you describe, they just dont make them like they used to. > I would see if you could get it replaced.
Good advice. > > I wonder if I should be buying another drive of the same size, then > > doing an overnight cp -a to the new drive, then attempting to use > > rsync to keep them mirrored, just in case. What do you think? I probably would just to be safe. It's a pain to try to rescue data after spindle bearings have given up the ghost. See below. > Regards, > Dan Gordon I upgraded a friend's old Compaq Presario roughly two months ago because his CD-ROM died, we replaced it with a Cicero 52x32x52 CD-RW that was on sale for CDN$35. Then a week later his original 13 GB hard drive started to make the death rattle whenever it got warm. Added a new 30 GB Maxtor he bought, mirrored the original Compaq/Windows partitions by freezing the old drive to shut it up, and installed Mandrake 9.1 for good measure. His future brother-in-lust gave him a 9 month old Maxtor 20 GB that "has bad sectors" the next day. I managed to get RMA for that one, the day after I did the report to Maxtor his new 30 GB started doing weird things. Got RMA for that one too, but had to use a new 60 GB I had sitting here (no more drive slots available in my old clunker) to keep him going until the new replacement drives arrived. <sigh> You think *you* have drive problems? <g> If it's mass produced it can be a lump, no matter what _it_ is. Including people. (-; Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:43:55 up 8 days, 18:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.06 The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose. -- David Lardner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/rnJqG11CaRuZZSIRAlLbAJ9Du6WGvbSPMGDX9wYNlGTNLGvUNwCgmhNb Pai/5iP5O9OkFYylgh/cIJE= =yzqn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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