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

[Alan Pope]

On 12 Nov 2011, at 23:29, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 


What evidence did you provide to backup you disk failure claim?

Log of smart tools output or screenshots from disk utility may be useful here otherwise it's your word against his.

Al.