On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 04:57 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I had returned a CD/DVD drive to LiteOn under warranty about a month > ago and it came back the other day, looked used but had a different > serial number. I figured they were playing "musical chairs" with the > equipment Manufacturers do do that. If they find returned goods aren't actually faulty, they may re-use them for warrentee replacements (which sounds sensible enough). If they repair returned goods, they may re-use them. Unfortunately, sometimes they just flog off returned faulty goods as if nothing was wrong with them, hoping the next person won't complain. That happened to me when I returned a very expensive faulty microphone. The replacement that came back was the same one, it had a scratch in a place I recognised, and still had my gaffer tape holding their broken box together. The distributor was highly embarrassed when I spoke to him about it. His solution was to ask for another replacement, but not give them my faulty one back to them until afterwards. Which, I guess, means that some other person ended up with the faulty one, eventually. > but installed it in what had been an F7 computer I thought was working > well and immediately began to see seg faults! > > I put the old drive back, same problem! That would seem to vindicate > the replacement drive would it not, or had it done damage to something > else? It might be that particular model of drive doesn't work well for you, either with the rest of your hardware, or software (including the OS). That sort of problem's not unknown. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
