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Hi, I have used Maxtor drives for some time and would recommed them. They are SMART enabled and my 40 Gig drive came up SMART status bad - backup and replace (on booting up, therefore under BIOS and before reaching lilo) on my dual boot box. Drive still under warranty so a quick visit to the Maxtor website meaqnt I could get a replacement drive sent before returning the old drive so I was able to copy everything accross and not lose any data. And the new drive was 60 Gig. Of which I can still only use 33 Gig because of my BIOS. That's another point in favour of Maxtor - if you have an older BIOS that won't recognise the larger drives, you are able to set a jumper to limit the disk and boot the machine. Under linux you can then read info off the drive to enable access to the full drive - I still need to work out how tho - I'm still only a basic linux user. IBM drives the limit to 32 Gig is absolute. Mark On Monday 17 June 2002 20:55, you wrote:
All hard drives die, and I dislike when I see people cast blame on a particular manufacturer. I say, buy a HD with best specs for the best price. :) There are some "early warning" features on some HDs with SMART ability I think is one. I was wondering, has anyone got any use of these features under Linux (or windows for that matter)? -Kai On su, kesä?? 16, 2002 at 10:37:17 +0100, paul wrote:I think maxtor are reliable, my local school has just got loads in after the last lot from a different manufacturer started to die, something to do with lack of fault tolerance.
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