HDD failures

donkey42

donkey42

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the other day i had 2 Maxtor HDD go down, now the 160Gb HDD was fixable by doing a Low Level Format

BTW: i know LLF doesn't really exist anymore, but, the "term" is still used, but, all it really means nowadays is zero fill (write a zero to every part of the HDD)

anyway i blanked the 160Gb HDD with DBAN (took about 4 hours, but, i have a working HDD)
so, i'm back on Kubuntu but i still need another HDD, possibly i'll try Debian, but i'm defiantly buying a Seagate HDDs use liquid bearings obviously unlike maxtor

maybe seagate (who owns maxtor) will start using liquid bearings on maxtor HDDs, pwease seagate
 
You can also zero-fill a drive on Linux, UNIX, or OS X by using the built-in 'dd' command. Assuming the drive you wanted to zero fill was designated as /dev/sdc:
Code: 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
dd is an extremely handy tool. You can even use it to make copies of CDs, DVDs, video games, even whole hard disks. Let's say we have a disc we want to copy in /dev/cdrom:
Code: 
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/donkey/MySweetDVD.iso
:cool:
 
mega said:
Ahh AT always comes up with the goods :D
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as always

BTW: i know i can be a bit slow (blame the brain damage for that) but, i actually know more than i think i know, i've just got to pull it out of this shed i call a head

am i correct in saying: to install the kernel sources you need to download the 2.6.xx sources and apply the HWF gutsy patch to them, then install them ?[ot]told you i'm a bit slow at times[/ot]
 
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