markus reichelt said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > strangely, my older maxtor drives (with 80 GB capacity and below) work > fine for 3+ years, even in heavy use. the problems started with those 120+ > drives... The problem only really started in the last year an a half. Before that, Maxtor _was_ a good company. IBM even used Maxtor drives in all there desktops, for the longest time. AFAIK, and from personal experience, only the thin Diamondmax drives were causing problems. The big problem is, even after thousands of RMAs, Maxtor has done nothing about it. Now my RMAs are even coming back with someone else's OS on them. Recently I picked up a drive from a local office supply store, some cheap third party thing for home use, open it up and find a Maxtor Diamondmax drive in the box. Nothing no the box saying what was inside, just a really cheep price tag. So, now you know where your RMAs are going, make sure to leave a Linux Master Boot Record on them so home users can't install Windows and will be forced to take them back before they burn out in the 3-6 months of their expected life cycle. -- Scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
