From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261326AbTJ0KXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:23:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261515AbTJ0KXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:23:06 -0500 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:15848 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261326AbTJ0KXD (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:23:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:23:01 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results get worse Message-ID: <20031027102301.GK12395@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB39B@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> <3cba01c39c6f$141529a0$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nzri8VXeXB/g5ayr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3cba01c39c6f$141529a0$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nzri8VXeXB/g5ayr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-10-27 18:34:48 +0900, Norman Diamond wrote in message <3cba01c39c6f$141529a0$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60>: > Eric Mudama wrote: > also volunteer one day each weekend to test Linux. How can I arrange to > damage one block on a disk? That's obviously quite easy to do. In German, we call this "spanabhebende Datenverarbeitung". Just open some HDD and do some thick scratches with a screwdriver on one of it's platters. > I'm not sure how many Dell notebooks you'll have to open to see a Toshiba > drive, but I'll bet the number is low. Also do you recognize the name > Toshiba as a large maker of notebook PCs, and do you have any guesses as = to > how many Toshiba notebooks you'll have to open to see a Toshiba drive? > Toshiba already reduced their former US 3-year warranties to 1 year and Personally, I don't like Toshiba. They're a so large company that they can effort to do their own chips (like pcmcia bridges etc.). This way, you get new (preprietary) chips at some time. Been there, now buying other notebooks... MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --nzri8VXeXB/g5ayr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/nPIFHb1edYOZ4bsRAnqEAJ97O3tBgL/pCXu8GN5z9tABnFo7sgCfVLWk yIaGpTCLNfh29tViGn+ZHr4= =V+yp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nzri8VXeXB/g5ayr--