Re: CD copies same as originals
- From: "Mr.T" <MrT@home>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:40:30 +1000
"Isaac Wingfield" <isw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:isw-564D63.22122813092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm a Mac user; have been for fifteen years. I've been given a *lot* of
> disks over the years by Windows users who told me the disk was no good,
> that they'd tried every trick they knew, reformatting, and on and on,
> but they couldn't get it to work. These are SCSI disks, BTW. I get them
> by saying my kid likes to take them apart to get the magnets.
>
> In almost every case, I stuck them on a Mac, formatted them up and
> verified the media, and used them for years without a problem. I have a
> very robust backup system in place, and use it constantly, but I've
> never needed to use it to recover from one of those disks failing,
> bacause none ever has. I've taken them out of service because my storage
> needs outgrew them; the first ones I got that way were 212 Meg jobbies;
> very expensive at the time.
>
> I recently bought four 50 Gig Segate drives at a parking lot sale for
> $1.00 each; all four had stickers saying "won't boot", or "BIOS Failure"
> or something similar. All four work just fine on my Macs; two of them
> serve my MP3s.
>
> I'm not sure what's going on, but I sure do appreciate all the "free"
> disks.
>
> In twenty years of using computers (mostly Macs) with hard drives, I
> have experienced exactly two "hard" drive failures.
I'm glad you like Macs, but I often "fix" hard drives for people who don't
know how to do it, using a PC. Nothing new there.
Another reason why SCSI drives are discarded of course is that most IBM
users don't even now what they are. They have no idea how to boot from one,
so naturally they get the error messages you refer to. No need for a Mac
though.
Like you, I have had very few hard drive failures in over 20 years, and
countless drives. But it does happen, and I try to steer clear of the models
with a bad reputation.
There was a reason the old Conner models were scorned, and an IBM was
christened "deathstar" for example. :-)
MrT.
.
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