[ubuntu-uk] Bug #1 and onwards....

[alan c]

On 12/11/11 18:41, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 12/11/11 17:03, alan c wrote:
>> Yes, sorry, I was too vague, SMART errors. I explained to her at the 
>> time that we were not looking at her Windows, and this was information 
>> from the drive itself. And then later her son connected remotely, to 
>> Windows presumably, looked at the file system, saw nothing untoward, 
>> and rubbished Ubuntu.
> I came across this last year.  I bought a secondhand drive from Amazon.  
> Ubuntu immediately condemned it - it had close to the maximum of 
> relocated sectors.  Windows, however, didn't tell me anything!  
> Obviously I got in touch with Amazon who gave me a full refund and told 
> me to dump the drive.  The seller seems to have disappeared from 
> Amazon's list!  They would have got away with it if I were a Windows 
> user, as a few folk still seem to be.
> 
> I'm told by a friend who was a developer on NTFS that it is an excellent 
> filesystem, misused by the overarching operating system.  It only 
> fragments because its potential was never properly implemented.  I tend 
> to believe this.
> 
> Maybe your friend ought to have been allowed to ignore the SMART test.  
> The Ubuntu knocker would have had egg on his face in a month or two when 
> the drive dies catastrophically!

(grim smile)

I have replied with a number of informative and polite and appropriate
messages.

The code of conduct would be proud of me! (note to self: I must try to
understand exactly how to  sign it).

The person is still saying she wants to run Ubuntu (alongside), and I
have  suggested
1) she uses www.hdtune.com to do a double check for herself (or
relative) and
2) that her relative please resize Windows first, then I will  be able
to help her with installing Ubuntu. I await  this situation.

My hopeful objective is to keep her and her associate on board, and
quite possibly, in time, interest her relative too, when he becomes
better informed. I live in hope as you see.

Meanwhile, during today, I cannot tell you how much my diplomacy chip
has been overheating.
-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user