[ale] Did WD15EARX consume my weekend?

[James Sumners]

Nice. Glad you got it figured out.

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM, PairOfTwins
<PairOfTwins at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Jim:
>
> Actually, memtest failed!  Much to my surprise, the screen turned
> seriously red.  I swapped RAM out and memtest was fine.
>
> I've just finished repartitioning, reinstalling, and then copying nearly
> 1 TB of data.  The 2 target partitions both passed e2fsck, and a compare
> of 2 movies passed also.  I'm happy now.
>
> The value of a second opinion!  I was focused on the NEW hardware, where
> the problem WASN'T.
>
> Tom
>
> BTW - Win7 couldn't even see the hard drive due to a missing driver.



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