Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:45:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: pete@kesa26.Kesa.COM (Pete Delaney) Cc: jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, pete@rahul.net Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 Message-ID: <199508311045.DAA10874@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <9508310047.AA04493@kesa26.Kesa.COM> from "Pete Delaney" at Aug 30, 95 05:47:35 pm
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> > > > > Stop buying SeaCRATES... :-) :-) :-). > > At Auspex their Disk Drive people found the SeaCRATE 4GB Hawk to be > more relialiable that the Micropolus 4GB drive. I believe here at > Kesa they also had to return a 4BG Micropolus drive. Perhaps the > SeaCRATE drives made in Singapore are ok. The 4GB Hawk drive is the only Segate drive that Accurate Automation will ship from Segate at this time. Unless my customer exerts a bit of pressure to have me special order a specific drive that they desire. I have seen 1 dead Hawk (Hi Jim!) that occured during transit via 2nd day air, and from the failure symptoms it sounds as if the hawk-4 may have a broken head locking mechansism, or one that is easily unlatched by shipping shock :-(. The drive had been through a 50+ hour burn in cycle with no problems, but was DOA at the customers sight with repeative bad sectors spaced what looked to be 1 cylinder apart (hard to tell on ZBR drives), hard for the customer to provide this data back to me. This is also the first time ever that Segate has been qualified to supply drives for Auspex, something they have wanted to do for a very long time. Micropolis has been the drive supplier for Auspex servers since day 1, this is a good testimonial on Micropolis's ability to deliver good drive models over many years. And sure, every one comes out with a lemon once in a while (and the MC3243 is FAR from a lemon, also your not comparing apples to apples. The 4G micropolis drive that did not meet auspexes requirements is a 7200rpm drive, the Hawk-4 that is being used is a 5400RPM drive). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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