[ale] harddrive errors

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Jun 6 12:42:30 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 12:12 -0400, John Wells wrote:
> James P. Kinney III said:
> > GET RID OF THE DRIVE!!!!! See below
> 
> Done....using Knoppix to run shred on it for a couple of passes and then
> back to the store it goes.
> 
> Thanks for catching that...I was focused on the one ATA error smartctl was
> reporting and missing the more telling details.
> 
Hardware QC is really on the skids lately. I've had numerous issues with
hard drive, RAM, video cards, etc, lately. It really looks like the
factories just crank it out and sell it with no testing.

The REAL fun starts when a client buys all the hardware for a server
from refurbished bins (with me screaming NO!!) and then still wants top
2% functionality from the machine.

> John
> 
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