I guess it could just be bad luck, but I'd like to check. I've had two
Quantum Atlas (4.3GB) disks, purchased this spring from APS, go south on me.
They drives had been attached and working a bit over a month before the
first one died (10 days ago). Granted, the disks formed my Usenet news
spool, so they were taking a beating to start, but have I overlooked
something?
Each drive in question came up with some bad blocks, and that just ruins
everything now, don't it? Here's some more detail:
System is DEC 3000/400s, DU 3.2c, 64 MB ram, running INN 1.4unoff4.
Cables are solid, DEC jobbers, and connections were tight.
System firmware is 6.4, and each drive was on the external bus.
I checked the archives after the first drive went, and didn't find anything
mentioning this. Anything you know that I don't? Do tell!
Thanks.
--
John P. Speno, jspeno1_at_swarthmore.edu, Swarthmore College Computing Center
"There is no wisdom greater than kindness."
Received on Fri Aug 30 1996 - 02:12:53 NZST