I got notice today from Scan that they have rejected my RMA and will not give me a refund due to the drive having a physical defect, which they say is my fault, and in any case I should have told them within two days of delivery! Yeah because I’m sure every person who receives a piece of computer equipment inspects the circuit board immediately! Bastards. Samsung basically said they can’t issue me a replacement and Scan really should refund me.

I got the Seagate 7200.11 from ebuyer today, that doesn’t work either – its seems to be a bug with the SIL3114, although the Intel ICH5R didn’t like the Samsung drive either – nor did the USB2 enclosure so that one must have been duff. Anyway waiting to hear about returning it and probably get two 500Gb Seagates but they’re not going to get here in time for France. Been doing some SQL injection and XSS stuff at work today, plus general running around and phonecalls.

Scan were good enough to give me a refund and Citylink picked up the dead hard disk today, so can’t say fairer than that. I’m buying the 750Gb Seagate 7200.11 from ebuyer now, should arrive tomorrow with any luck – hopefully this one will work. I was considering buying two 500Gb WD-AAKS’s but it works out 30ukp more expensive, and would leave me with a spare 250Gb drive, so not giving me any more capacity or freeing up controller ports.

I’ve wasted all of today trying to get my new 750Gb Samsung SpinpointF1 hard disk to work. I tried it in the eSATA enclosure on the VIA interface, that was dead iffy – with it randomly disappearing, locking the machine when I wrote to it and generally being shite. So I downloaded the utility to force SATA150 mode instead of SATA300, that seemed to make things worse – actually causing Linux to hang just after grub.

Wow I can’t believe its Thursday night already, the week’s gone quickly. Work’s been kind of slow, but probably going to be a bit hectic tomorrow. I hope I’m not coming down with anything like the rest of the planet seems to be, I’ve been dizzy, had headaches and now have a mouth ulcer too. I just watched Juno, which was pretty damn good actually, kind of a love story, comedy and drama all in one.