-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 December 1999 04:03 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Hello everybody. > I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate:
Cruel fate: this *is* going to be a good story, I'll read on :) At this time I often switched from linux to Windows and vice versa. Yuppers, that would be a cruel situation. I did it too for a small time, but I just couldn't ignore RMS's suggestions of implied migration. >It was a Quantum Fireball with about 14 GByte. Killed a few of those too, but I used combo of Windows & DOS then. > It twanged like the read/write header of the hdd would somehow hang. Time to backup what you can and toss it in the trash. >The harddisk was a Western Digital with 20 GByte capacity. Killed at least two of those. One via a nasty power surge/outage and second with 100 watts of high frequency amateur radio signal, the rig was poorly grounded and fed in via temporary sound card connection. > Now I got this new hdd. A WD 40GByte diskspace. > She lasted from October last year till a few days ago. That would cause me to look at grid power supply, computer power supply (do use minimum 300 watt). I learned that the last 20GB drive on a windows box I had given away died very much like yours did. Leads me to think WD isn't what an IBM is. > I wasn't able to rescue the important stuff but at least > some personal data. My fear is loss of school work. I keep back-up copies on two computers, and burn a CDWR disk from time to time. The rest of the data was found on the net and can be re-smurfed if I still want the data locally. I also don't worry about backing up my OS. Waste of time IMO as Debian has an excellent web presence. > Friends of mine, interested in hardware but not all really > familiar with the stuff and also Microsoftlovers keep on telling me > 'Linux is the source of all evil'. Finding good and intelligent friends is always difficult. Dumb(er) friends seem to always be in ample supply. :) > I'm pretty unused to make real analyzes and so I hope that someone > could tell me how to find the source that leads to those hdd damages. > Could it be a unlucky hardware setting of mine? > > Frank I repeat; check your grid power supply, too much makes bad things happen, but too little also has bad effects on current hardware. UPS is a very good investment, and better UPS's offer clean and regulated supply of power to your devices. Next check the power supply in your case. Many weird things have happened with the cheaper power supplies. 300 watts is a good minimum, 350-400 is even better. I am having excellent luck with my IBM 60GB drives. They are far quieter than the WD's were. The IBM's also moves data faster than the 7200 RPM WD drives. They price so closely at retail that I don't see price as an issue today. I am not impressed with the amount of WD failures I have expereinced or learned about, so I decided to stop buying them. Backup stuff you want to keep on CDR or CDRW disks. They stand a better chance at surviving all sorts of terrible things like magnets, damp conditions, and electrical spikes. They are also nicely portable and easy to keep safe. I don't think your drive failures have anything to do with Linux at all. You don't mention what type of file system you use, but I would expect you used the defacto EXT2. If you did use another FS, you may wish to investigate further for future installs. I do wish you success at recovery. tatah - -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user\/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE8+B6fZHBxKsta6kMRAonWAJ4zwuViKKs11mrbL5ByDHvTZG1KEQCYysoK GR3l1KQSOrFtKF1EnxbVpg== =a/F8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
