HELP: External 250G USB screwed with GParted

[André Costa]

Wow, it's amazing how far from the original subject this thread has gone... =}

Andre (OP)

On Jan 22, 2008 12:41 PM, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> 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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