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So, my first generation Maxtor ‘One Touch’ (one touch with a hammer will fix this drive enclosure!) firewire external hard drive failed. The internal PATA 160gb hard drive failed and I, in my naive way, thought, “I should just replace the hard drive inside the enclosure so I can reduce the amount of crap that I throw into land fill”. The Maxtor ‘One Touch’ (one touch by an angry Cyclops is the best for the maxtor marketing department) enclosure was working fine,just the internal drive failed.
So, here I am looking at all the new fancy eSATA external drives with firewire 800 and bells and whistles and looking at the internal PATA drives thinking I can just get one of those and everything would be sweet. Wrong. (Fuck you Maxtor!) The complete fuckwits at Maxtor, most likely the marketing department, decided in their infinite wisdom of the industrial revolutions greatest perpetual motion machine, economic growth, that they would intentionally add something to their hard drive enclosures that would cripple my 500GB western digital PATA drive to 128GB.
This mindlessly stupid act is actually inside the electronics of the hard drive enclosure and not only restricts the drives representation to the computer as 128gb while in the maxtor one touch (one touch of a fusion reactor should fix this hard drive enclosure), actually writes to the PATA drive firmware itself to cripple the drive when it is inserted into another computer or hard drive case. Amazing! Incredible! what a wonderful thing to perpetuate on the world. Another Shit product to be thrown in the land fill. Ohh, I could make an exhibition at the local art gallery showing people, like the ones who work at Maxtor who decided to cripple an amazing accomplishment of engineers past, into the leechers that they are.
So, here I am with a 500GB Western Digital PATA 3.5″ Hard Drive that, when I remove it from its shackle’s in the Maxtor ‘One Touch’ (one touch from the depths of hell where the ingenuity of maxtors business unit employees arises, should work for this drive enclosure), it will be magically be reduced to 128GB which requires an ‘ucking PC to do low level magic on, to fix. I don’t have an ‘ucking PC, nor do I want one. Yes, that right, you can restore your hard drive to it’s un-maxtor spoilt previous capacity by runnin a piece of software called “HDAT2″ located at http://www.hdat2.com/ . It rewrites some ATA code on the drive itself to release the rest of your hard drive. Don’t what ever you do, put the drive back into the maxtor case!! It will fuck it again straight away. Maxtor, ohh Segate now, of couse do not even recognise this as a fault with their product and the only representation of this faulty product tries to tell you to replace your ATA controller? What the fuck! My ATA controller? It’s your controller that is fucked, the one you designed and installed into your hard drive enclosure!
This is one of the bast threads regarding the issue. http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=359325 . As usuall, the PC threads ramble on about crap and try to get you to replace you ATA controller? and up grade your BIOS? the fuck are you guys talking about again… you’ve missed the point entirely! Yes, some windows version are so crippled that they cant recognise more than 128GB and yes their are BIOSes that have some problem with their Large-BA (Large Bullshit Artists) but this problem has nothing to do with your own PC. It is squarely an engineering fuck-up.
Ohh well, lucky I have a brother who works in the IT industry. Gee no wonder we need all there people to work in IT industry! If we lived in a world that didn’t believe in perpetual motion machines; long live growth; we would probably have half of our population working in jobs that create meaning and love for humans! Fuck!
The above link takes you to an article on wikileaks.de regarding the censoring of the internet in Australia. You can download the list of banned sites from there and view them for yourself. I encourage you to save a copy for you own research.
While Wikileaks is used to exposing secret government censorship in developing countries, we now find Australia acting like a democratic backwater. Apparently without irony, ACMA threatens fines of upto $11,000 a day for linking to sites on its secret, unreviewable, censorship blacklist — a list the government hopes to expand into a giant national censorship machine.
I just had a thought about how people with religious good intentions really scare me. I heard the senator for censorship in Australia in question time when being told by the senate committee that this legislations was completely ridiculous, his reply was something like, ’so you support child pornography then’. The simplicity of the argument works well for channel seven news bites and maybe the majority of people only think in news bites now, as can be evidenced by our societies continuation of multiple wars against things you cant wage war against….thought war….
