Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:32:29 -0800 (PST) From: User BURTON <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217113119.352A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970217211226.311K-100000@trifork.gu.net>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Andrew Stesin wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > 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? > > Best regards, > Andrew Stesin > > nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE > > > I can't comment on any other drives, but I have a WDC AC21600H with no problems since 8/96 when I installed it.
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