Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:53:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: tbalfe@falcon.tioga.com (Thomas J Balfe) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis, again Message-ID: <199607241853.LAA23089@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960724141232.16494B-100000@falcon.tioga.com> from Thomas J Balfe at "Jul 24, 96 02:15:17 pm"
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> Save yourself the headache, that Micropolis 4.3GB that I had replaced > (again) under warranty is giving problems once more. > > Jul 22 12:23:04 gryphon /kernel: , retries:2 > Jul 22 12:23:04 gryphon /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:77ab0b > asc:11, 0 Unrecovered read error > > My ~messages is pretty full of this, and Micropolis is full of that, I > will never buy anything from them again. I'm having the reseller replace > that drive with a Quantum of the same capacity. What does the output of: scsi -f /dev/rsd0 -m 1 show? Black listing a vendor for having a single model number (MC3243 in this case) that was a lemon is going to leave you with no suppliers of disk drives :-(. And yes, the MC3243 seems to be a bit of a lemon, not as bad as the early Seagate Baracuda drives, but I have seen more failures in the field with this drive than I would have expected from a typical Micropolis. These drives also seem to be temperature sensitive, and I have noticed that on current Micropolis MC4421 drives a small thermal sensitive overtemp sticker has been added that shows if the drives case temp is >70 deg C. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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