Maxtor drive

[Richard R. Sivernell]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 08:14:38 -0400
dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> begin  Keith Antoine's  quote:
> 
> | I gues its horses for courses, but I have had nothing BUT problems
> | with Maxtor. I will not eve go near one with a long sticky pole. I
> | have had problems with Maxtors and Ghost and it was not ghosts
> | fault, I also have hasd problems with one of the best, in my
> | estimation, partion software Acronis 5, which has had no problems
> | ever with seagates, ibms, WDs and old drives.
> 
> an update on my sister's system. she took the maxtor back and got a 
> western digital. and again the suse 8.0 install halted at the point 
> where it was probing the hard drive. there followed lots of checking 
> -- dos's fdisk saw and identified the drive, and worked, after which 
> she deleted the partitions it had made -- and all her hardware is 
> listed as working with linux. there were various things suggested all 
> over the place, but most were not practical, in that she had no other 
> working machine there.
> 
> she having blown a rare day off on this, she got a little angry with 
> me for having suggested linux.
> 
> yesterday, she put windows on it, and everything works fine. and so 
> now i will get phone calls from her whenever the thing gets infected. 
> but the "too bad you're not running linux" response will no longer be 
> available.
> -- 
> dep
> 
DEP

   This is unfortunate, with a little more patience and some tanacity
she would have over come all. Thgis common with 90% of computer users,
instant gratification, & road of lest ressistance. Being a long way away did not
help either, I have the same problem with my wife's familt, all use winders.

  You did try, for that we lift a cold virtual one in your name.

cheers
-- 
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at gte.net
Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
Registered Linux User

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