Testing it thoroughly might be a little tricky (they'd
> have to throw in another hard drive temporarily, drop windows on it,
> test the widget, and then swap the drives back), but they should be able
> to do that for most hardware.  I could believe that they might not go to
> that trouble when first installing new hardware into your machine that
> has been otherwise working, unless you brought the hardware back saying
> that it particularly had a problem.  But at that point they should
> certainly be able to verify that the hardware is working properly and
> narrow it down to the fact that you have a problem with your Linux setup.
>
> Have you had experience that would suggest otherwise?
>

Aaron, have you guys tried building a test CD with Bart's Boot CD? Windows
based, not linux based. We use it to create network boot CD's for example.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

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