On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Adrian Sandu wrote: > > We are working with computers. Weird stuff is not supposed to happen. But > > it does. Occasionally, this needs to be remembered, as it does > > occasionally cause real-world problems and is often the likely explanation > > for what is otherwise inexplicable. Thus, sooner or later some old geezer > > comes along and reminds people that Murphy is still around to do his > > mischief. I am glad that my suggestions turned out to be helpful. > > I can't thank you people enough .. I just hope that this thread will > help someone else in the future ( feel free to add this to your list > of stories ! :) ) > I just hate it when hardware (or in my case, cable ) makes don't stick > to the specs or "improve"/change them as they see it fit. If I'm > payin' for a product ( especially from a brand ) I expect it to do its > job better than others. I wouldn't of expected this from WD .. Oh? Why not? Of course, perhaps Seagate stuff is always better. Or Microsoft. Or Apple. Or ...??? (:-) Specs and standards are for violating, you know. Or that is what some people think. It has been that way from the beginning of time. But what would be the solution? To have neither specs nor standards? One wouldn't expect that to work out too well, either. Peter Stuge's comments are quite relevant, too. He is probably right about the category of external hard drives, these days. Indeed, they seem too good of a bargain. But maybe we are the ones who are fooled and it is the internal hard drives which are overpriced. Who knows? Anyway, one of the things which makes life really complicated for too many of us is, the statement that "you get what you pay for" is not necessarily true, either. It happens sometimes that some fly-by-night or Brand X company is making and selling the best product on the market in some category, but they can't charge nearly as much money as the so-called reputable producers and vendors precisely because they have no brand recognition. So one never knows. Cheers, Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
