18 Jun
2000
18 Jun
'00
2:31 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 01:26:05AM -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
I saw someone at Apple explain the semi-official fix
for the Seagate drive
stiction problem, or was it the Quantum lubrication problem? I forget.
[...]
8. Whack the drive against the surface as hard as you
can.
Back before I got tired of being Seagate's bitch, I used to use this same
operation w/o bothering with the disassembly/reassembly steps. I'd just whack
the shit out of my PC, and it would start working again. I was pleasantly
surprised, each time I was so pissed off that I didn't really care whether
I got my data back, I just wanted the #~!% Seagate drive to die Die DIE!!!
I've since learned my lesson, I'll buy any piece of crap as long as it's not
Seagate (or Maxtor, blech), everything else seems to be perfectly reliable
enough. I especially liked Conner, no wonder Seagate had to kill them.
John Wilson
D Bit