ebuyer have given me my money back for the duff hard disk, so why couldn’t Scan do that and satisfy their customer?!

I’ve been sorting out some infrastructure at work today, so the guys can do some testing next week when I’m away. The boss told me to go at 1:30pm, once that lot was done, can’t say fairer than that 🙂

I watched Aliens vs. Predator: Requim, or basically AvP2, last night. It was bloody good – better than AvP I think, although it was a bit dark – I didn’t even realise that one of the aliens was half predator until afterwards!

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. Well Mastercard disputes are now on the case, so hopefully I’ll get my 100ukp+ back….

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.