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[News] Seagate ST3660A neededANN.lu
Posted on 17-Jan-2001 15:48 GMT by Christian Kemp34 comments
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In the beginning of January, Allan Odgaard managed to short circuit his harddisk. His hope is that someone has an identical harddisk, from which he can borrow the control print to restore his data. "The model is a Seagate ST3660A and the drive parameters are 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB." Also see his original message.
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Seagate ST3660A needed : Comment 27 of 34ANN.lu
Posted by PaulT on 17-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT
Well, well. Maybe I was in a poor mood when I read the original post. So were a lot of folks who insulted me on my response! Since YOU have all wasted your time already, I can do so once again. I'll be using the time-honored rhetorical question method.
Here's a moderated, world-wide Amiga community resource, ANN. Supposed to, and generally does, contain high quality information about the community, the developments, the future. I've supported it all along by clicking through, offering encouragement, personal notes to the operator, etc. It belongs to Christian, who I complimented in my post. How, I ask, does a post about an isolated disk failure make it to the front page of this resource?
Is the subject guy a luser? This term traditionally means someone who is clue-impaired in some way. My opinion was that this was not a screw-up that was unforeseeable. Anybody can make a silly mistake. Not keeping backups of important sourcevery silly mistake. Does AO's worthy accomplishments in the computing and Amiga fields make the mistake less devastating? No. Fine, use some other label that means,"He is a professional who should have known better" and remove luser.
Is backup of large disks impractical? Ask anyone who's lost one without a backup, especially someone who makes their living with that data. THEY DON'T GENERALLY LET IT HAPPEN A SECOND TIME. CDBurners are now cheap. SCSI or other tape drives haven't always been cheap but I sure have one. What is the cheapest and fastest way to backup? Write your source to a couple of floppies as was pointed out. Do so every time you make a major change. What is the second easiest, and by far the fastest? Buy a second disk and make an image of your first one. So AO was trying to do this? He could have bought the backup IDE disk, made his image copy, THEN installed a complex SCSI installation of whatever sort caused the meltdown. He worked on his own machine and a friend helped out for free? They got their money's worth from saving the cost of that service technician, didn't they?
Why did Christian put this on the main page instead of maybe the unmoderated, low-priority area? He wanted to help a compatriot. On ANY newsgroup, a much more casual and high noise area, this would be considered massively off-topic and flamebait. OK, so it's his Web site. Consider this then my criticism of Christian's actions. And this discussion's very low rating reflects every one's opinion that _it didn't belong here_ to contribute to the quality of an important community resource.
I wish AO the best of luck. I'm a user group president who's educated and assisted scores of Amiga users, and saved a few from hard disk crashes. "One in a million chance" for hard disk failure? Wrong. And when it happens to you, if you haven't saved your important files somewhere else, you will remember this discussion and have learned the hard way. Hundreds of hours of personal effort at risk really is the cost for not having backups.
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