On Sunday 19 March 2006 7:50 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
Hello All,
After months of singing praises of Linux, finally I got the customer to try it out. It was on an existing M$ system that had been running since its installation for 4 years.
1) Never touch a Samsung disk (hardisk and cd/dvd drives) more than two yrs old. It fails after heavy activity in a few days. In case of cd/dvd even a year is bad enough. This has happened to me several times (six out of eight). so it's not coincidence. In fact never touch a customer hardisk without backing up EVERYTHING.
as 'la$@# lag gayey'.
LOL.
Since I am promoting linux free of cost, as a community propaganda, providing a free HDD along with linux is a bit expensive and I would like to know some things as mentioned below.
Be ready to breast feed the customer too, if he has used windoze for a few yrs.
- Can this HDD be reprogrammed or forced with a low level format?
Right now the bios cannot even detect it.
Move it to another machine with a different cable to check.
- Is there any software that detects the health of a HDD before it
can be loaded with Linux?
These usually die without warning. Software cant predict such deaths.
- What could have gone wrong in this case and what precautions do
I need to take to avoid such mishaps in future?
Read 1. Ask the customer to spend on a new hardisk or use knoppix.