File System ???

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Matt Patterson Wrote: 
> I have had this problem before, but with a windows box, and it would
> occur on a proper shutdown as well as an unplanned poweroff. It was
> caused by a pair of new 160 GB maxtor drives I installed. I tracked it
> down to the fact that the disks were not completing their cache flushes
> before system poweroff. Some drives lie about whether or not they have
> flushed things. On a windows box this is a horrible killer because the
> 

> last thing written is the system registry hive (stupid design in my 

> opinion).

Sorry for a very late reply, but I've seen this same thing happen on a
Windows XP box with a 160GB Maxtor drive. In fact the Maxtor was so bad
that I couldn't use it in XP at all. The drive failed totally in 6
months or so (like all my other Maxtor drives, except two older 80GB
drives I still have left). I lost very important data, because the
backup drive of the failed drive failed before I got a new drive. :mad:




My nearest computer shop doesn't sell Maxtor anymore. They told that
selling stuff that doesn't work is bad for business.


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pioni