Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:27:56 GMT From: zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula) To: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis, again Message-ID: <31f775a6.3584271@mail.digitaladvantage.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960724192513.2097A-100000@dympna> References: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960724192513.2097A-100000@dympna>
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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996 19:38:53 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >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 > > Say, just out of curiosity, what type of Adaptec card are you using? Is it one of those Ultra SCSI cards?
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