From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 24 17:38:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA27965 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dympna (dympna.lgc.com [134.132.73.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27960 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dympna (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id TAA02156; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 19:38:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 19:38:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@dympna To: Thomas J Balfe cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis, again In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Thomas J Balfe wrote: > 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. > Just sent another batch of drives back today. These have been collecting for a month or so. The tally: 2 X Seagate 10800 3 X Micropolis 1991 4 X Micropolis 1936 1 X Micropolis 1924 1 X IBM 2GB SGI OEM drive (stiction drive) What I see: 9GB FH 5.25 not up to snuff FH 5.25 Micropolis bad, bad, bad. I'll replace most of them with 3.5" drives in the 4GB range. (Probably Fujistu or Cudas.) BTW, has anyone done any sampling of the 9GB 3.5's? -Rob