Re: hardware doctors!

[Sajjad Zaidi <sajjad@example.com>]

Christopher SEKIYA wrote:

> I've never had any problems with IBM drives.  Not the fastest drives on the
> planet, but I've never had one die on me[1].
>
> -- Chris

I just got the 45GB ATA-100 IBM.
Now that IS the fastest drive (IDE) on the planet. hdparm gives me a cool
36MB/s transfer rate.

Of course I had to go through a terrible ordeal right after I moved all my data
to it. I somehow managed to make 12 partitions and one day when I got home only
6 were left with the 6th one being a few hundred TB in size. (All the important
stuff was on partitions 10 and 12).

But way to go linux. I managed to recreate the partition table (from memory and
lots of trial and error) in about 4 hours and miraculously got everything back.

Thatll teach me to backup and keep a record of my partitions. That was a
software thing so I cant blame IBM for it. Ill still stick to IBM drives.

A.Sajjad Zaidi