they didn't
Maxtor produced a run of appallingly bad 40gb hard drives.
these are most likley failed ones.
I used to work for a computer manufacturer (a f years ago) the fail rate on the 40gb hard drives we had in our machines was close to 90%.
we would even change hard dives out that we had already changed out.
most of them you could get going again, wiht maxtors low level format software, bt they would fail again in a few months.
the company refuses to use maxtor (or seagate) drives now.
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Sun 18 Nov 2007, 7:10,
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likewise
we've also had similar problems. a real PITA. segate and western digital seem ok to me. i've not had problems with scsi disks. generally they're built better, perhaps thats the enterprise tax.
(, Sun 18 Nov 2007, 15:08, Reply)