Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:28:54 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: stesin@gu.net Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? Message-ID: <199702171628.RAA03869@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970217211226.311K-100000@trifork.gu.net> from "Andrew Stesin" at Feb 17, 97 09:13:52 pm
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> > Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying: > > > > > one of our IDE disks failed (btw these WDC AC31600H are particularly > > > bad, we have had at least 10 failed units out of about 20; luckily > > > they come with a 3 yr guarantee!) > > > > Hmm, we had one die on us too, similar errors. > > I'd add that WDC 31200 are no better -- 2 of them died on me > since Jan. 1st. > > Is this kind of failure rate common to all those cheap IDE Western' > drives? for my experience, yes. Too bad, since they are quite fast -- about 5MB/s for the 31600 ... Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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