I just bought two Jaz drives to hold data on some 2100-4/275's we
have that use OSF/1-V3.2D.
Of the disks that came with the two drives, both had faults that "scu
verify media" detected. I re-formatted the drives, and the faults went
away -- at least as read faults. I still had write faults. I
reassigned the blocks usin SCU. This high defect rate was disturbing.
Following this, I mounted one of the drives & put a newfs on it and
copied data to it. Every so often the drive would "pause", but
eventually the data would be copied (625MB of it). However, prior to
this, I had problems where the drive would "hang" (the orange light
would stay lit), and the process accessing the drive couldn't be killed.
After a while (1/2 hour) I'd reboot the machine and all would be well.
The only difference betwen the "working" and "non-working" situation
was that I had rebulit the kernel & it included the device
(/dev/rz10c) in the config file.
We've had similar problems when using the Jaz drive on an x86/Solaris
platform and W/NT -- we think some of the problems might be due to the
media errors, which we only found on the Alpha.
However, this is a troubling experience to me - having 2 of 3 disks have
media errors as delivered doesn't bode well, and the hanging problem is
worrysome.
Have others been using the Jaz drives, on Alpha or not? Happy?
Received on Thu Jul 11 1996 - 07:51:26 NZST