Re: IBM Desktar disk problem?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 5 Jul 2002, Daniel Egger wrote:
> > <advise>
> > Buy decent drives, then get DriveFitnessTest (DFT) from their website
> > and check the harddrives, note the TRC number, request an RMA on their
> > website and ship the drives as soon as possible to IBM. Wait for the
> > replacement drives and sell them ASAP on Ebay to some freaks who don't
> > give a dime about data security.
> > </advise>
>
> ...and tell all the people who got a DTLA (because it's not as expensive
> as others in some countries, mind France, USA, Germany) to drop their
> disks if they want to use Linux, because we're too lazy to find a
> solution. That might be cool to you, but we want HARDWARE SUPPORT for
> Linux! That's why we're here.
>
> There _is_ a solution, we just have to find it.

Hmm... Would you be so kind to find it? ;-)

--
Bartlomiej

>
> 							Regards,
> 							Thunder
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