Hi Hal Thanks for the tips. It was the OPERATOR's fault I'm sure. Too much enthusiasm combined with a thick skull. The drives were working fine when I got them. I did find them delicate to work with. Went through a couple adapters which quit on me too. I'm moving up soon to possible motherboard destruction. Looking to flash the bios on EPOX P55-BT.
With Linux I've become less dangerous now that I've discovered and downloaded KNOPPIX which runs in RAM; and just read today that SUSE has a LIVE CD version as well. Must investigate. Lorraine <snip> > > Why software problems could cause drives to become > "grinders" is beyond me, except that laptop/notebook drives are 2" > jobs so you can visualize all that capacity in a very small and > compact space.. They've _got_ to be less rugged than normal.. > > Anyway good luck and hope you get things in order. > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
