From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Jun 8 11:15:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA24593 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from liliput.tmp.com.br (liliput.tmp.com.br [200.255.204.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA24548; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from durval@localhost) by liliput.tmp.com.br (8.7.1/8.6.9) id PAA27548; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:08:26 -0300 From: Durval Menezes Message-Id: <199606081808.PAA27548@liliput.tmp.com.br> Subject: Re: ERROR info:747d9d asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error, other SCSI issues To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:08:25 -0300 (EST) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, michael@memra.com, hdalog@zipnet.net, dror@hopf.dnai.com, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606081427.QAA04029@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jun 8, 96 04:27:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, > > >Maybe Quantum's engineering does something wierd internally and doesn't > > >test their drives on a real world activity mix that includes UNIX. > > > > That would be hard to believe, considering that Quantum drives ship in > > some HP Workstations, among others... > > And in lots of Digital Equipment machines... > > In general: I have yet to hear of a manufacturer that never has 'junk' > drive types every now and then. In the last 6 months, 4 of the sites I do consulting for had disk failures. All of them were using Quantum 2GB Empire drives... Also, I recall that about 1 1/2 years ago Seagate had a disastrous run of the Barracuda drives around (those with firmware revision level less than 12) that locked solid under heavy disk I/O. Best regards, -- Durval Menezes (durval@tmp.com.br, http://www.tmp.com.br/~durval)