On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:34:25AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > how ironic is it that you have to keep around a notoriously unreliable > > operating system to prove to the manufacturer that their hardware is > > failing... > > I manage two Thinkpads: my own and my girl friends' (that was bought > second hand). Both happen to have the 'factory installed OS', but > IBM/Lenovo didn't require that for diagnosis. > > The used laptop's hard drive failed as soon as I tried to fill the disk > with data from block 1 to last. I just phoned them once, and received > the replacement within 24 hours. > > On the other box the multiburner failed with read/write errors and I got > a replacement within 24 hours after reading the relevant parts of > /var/log/syslog to the support line. okay that's sweet. They'll get my $ when its time. Try that trick with <average oem> and see what happens. A
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