HELP: External 250G USB screwed with GParted

[Scott van Looy]

On Jan 23 Tim did spake thusly:

> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:54 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> and Tim proceeds to do technical specification dump on USB
>> specifications which I have no dispute with whatsoever except that my
>> real life experiences have mirrored that which I was told...a decent
>> USB cable should work for his standard USB 2.0 drive.
>>
>> What your axe is here, I don't know but myself, I tire when hearing
>> people dump endless technical detail that has proved to be irrelevant
>> in my experiences.
>
> Try "beyond your understanding," instead...
>
> You mentioned you were told that any decent cable should be fine.  You
> were given information about why that's not really true.  You contested
> that, you were given further details.  Stop whinging.  If you were
> expecting to be hear, "just plug it in, cross your fingers, and don't
> even think about what's involved," you're in the wrong place.
>
> If it works, good luck to you.  But if it doesn't, now you (and anybody
> else) knows about one more thing to investigate while resolving the
> problem.  And knowing about it from a point of fact, rather than
> conjecture that *maybe* the cable is bad, and a false belief that the
> cable couldn't be an issue.
>
> A lot of people will plug their drive into a cable, and it works as far
> as they're concerned.   For some it does, for others they get drive
> errors, data corruption, and whatnot, but they still feel that their
> drive *works*, they don't see anything wrong with it, they'll carry on
> and proclaim all is well (thousands of Windows users, and the plethora
> of crap hardware that's continually sold in many computer stores, are a
> testament to that attitude).

I had a similar conversation with a geek who wanted to know why I'd spent 
a little more than I needed to for an HDMI cable. His view was "it's 
digital, therefore it will either work or it won't", he used RJ45 as an 
example...seemed not to be able to grasp that you get what you pay for and 
that sometimes cables can slow down networks because of transmission 
errors

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