We where replacing them while still in warranty.
Roly
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:00:02 -0400
ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:42 pm, Roland Hughes wrote:
> > The "Quantum fireball" disk drives have a very high failure rate. At
> > work we have replaced every one of them. Roly
> not really fair to blame quantum, since almost every 10 gig hard drive
> is about due to fail, however, he should try to auto detect it in
> bios, and see what happens.
>
>
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:55:45 -0700
> >
> > "Dimitris Adamopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Need some help here!
> > > Yesterday I installed mandrake 8.2 on my oldie. P133 with 72mb RAM
> > > and a 10gb quantum fireball.
> > > When I finished the installation everything seemed to be right.
> > > The system was stable. Only when I had the kde up was a bit slow,
> > > something expected of cource.
> > > After about an hour the system went on "stand by" mode and the
> > > monitor turned off.
> > > When I moved the mouse to wake up the system the monitor turned on
> > > but the only think I saw was a stucked screenshot!
> > > My system was crashed.
> > > I did my best to recover it but the only way to move on was to
> > > push the power off button.
> > > When I tried to reboot I saw this f.. message:
> > > PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL
> > >
> > > Due to my old BIOS the primary disk it seems to be only 8gb aprox.
> > > but during the 8.2 installation progress the disk was seemed to be
> > > 10gb(actual size)
> > > What happened?
> > > I am a new linux user and I would really like to know what went
> > > wrong. Thanks .. Until my next crash!
>
>
>
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