Hi Jaye Jaye came to use his tongue on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:08:43PM -0700 > Cruel fate: this *is* going to be a good story, I'll read on :) Influence of my rpg activities, I guess *s* > > 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. I always wished to make a backup system, but somehow I'm lack of harddrives :/ > My fear is loss of school work. My problem is, that I often work on short stories or writing stuff for rpg > 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 Is on my wish list > I am having excellent luck with my IBM 60GB drives. I had a IBM 20 GByte. Suddenly some smd elements just felt off. It was obviously a manufacturing damage but all IBM said was: No warranty for OEM products, thanks for your interest. But I guess, I'll have another try on IBM > I don't think your drive failures have anything to do with Linux at all. Now I can sleep, thanks :) > You don't mention what type of file system you use, but I would > expect you used the defacto EXT2. Nope, I run reiserfs. > I do wish you success at recovery. Thanks. > I hope I'll fix the problem soon... -- $ Hello World! $ I am [Ff]rank ;) 1024D/EC4CE5CC 2002-05-14 Frank Brodbeck <oakenshield@gmx.net> fingerprint = 193D 62EC 03A5 1066 A951 4DA3 947A D578 EC4C E5CC
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