[ltp] IBM Access button

[Alejandro Bonilla]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:52:46 +0000 (GMT), honey wrote
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I impulsively flushed my A31P hard drive when I bought the
> > system a few years back and then installed Fedora Core.  Life was fine
> > until recently when smartd started reporting bad sectors.  I called
> > IBM and learned there is now a $52 charge for recovery media.  So I
> > would have been wiser to have made a backup or left the 10G recovery
> > partition in place.
> 
> I'm very much in the minority camp of leaving it on the disk too, for
> this reason: instant access to diagnostics even if nothing else.  But
> then, I hang on to XP for nostalgic reasons, and boot it once every 6
> months or so: usually to verify to IBM that what I have is a hardware
> problem (it's hard for them to argue if something doesn't work in
> Windows and Linux).
> 
> Is it really 10GB?  I could swear it was only 2-3GB on my T40.  At 

My T42 was top 4Gb too.

.Alejandro

> the time the "wasted" space seemed absolutely negligible compared to 
> scrabbling round in cupboards for diagnostic CDs later.