From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 7 12: 1:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E69D37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:01:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from area51.slashnet.org (area51.slashnet.org [209.150.98.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E95043ED4 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smkelly@zombie.org) Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (ip68-13-64-165.om.om.cox.net [68.13.64.165]) by area51.slashnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733E549F1F; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:01:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C9B5241587; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:01:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:01:11 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: Yeasah Pell Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk Message-ID: <20030107200111.GA24556@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <20030102205040.GC22880@Deadcell.ant> <20030103002730.GB729@Deadcell.ant> <200301022132.35297.duhring@charter.net> <3E152CAF.6000107@barryp.org> <00bf01c2b2f9$dfa77650$052010ac@gauss> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00bf01c2b2f9$dfa77650$052010ac@gauss> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:29:38AM -0500, Yeasah Pell wrote: > I returned a drive, it took a couple weeks to get it back, and the > replacement had a "used part" sticker on it. It failed within a month. > I foolishly returned the drive again, this time including a plea to > replace the drive with another model that doesn't fail, but I just got > the same thing back again, 2 weeks later. Now it rots in a drawer. I went through four of them like this. I'm still using the fourth one, until it explodes. All of them are "servicable used parts", so it means some other sucker returned them and they're just redistributing them after "fixing" them. My first drive lasted about a year. My second drive lasted about 6 months. My third drive lasted lasted a few weeks. Along with the return of the third drive, I included http://www.zombie.org/ibm.txt with the drive. I also managed to get an 'Ask Slashdot' story posted which asked people if they were having problems with this series of drive. To this day, I still get e-mail from people complaining about these IBM drives. (And yes, I apologize for contributing to something that is pretty far offtopic by now.) --=20 Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296 smkelly@zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+GzIGPm7A9NLl4pYRAhXAAKDIZsaMO9KiLm+CibjRDFMQpPu8xwCbB2cD Xn8X9TZsGB6twYkvqiuEiSk= =NMbO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message