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From: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Help needed installing 2.4.0
Message-ID: <900@sceard.COM>
Date: 29 Jul 89 19:57:33 GMT
References: <1939@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <227@opel.UUCP> <2421@wa4mei.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (0040-M.R.Murphy)
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Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc.  San Marcos, CA  92069
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In article <2421@wa4mei.UUCP> rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) writes:
>
>I tried to use some ST-4096 drives on my system with V/AT and out of about
>6 drives that I tried I could only get one of them to work for any longer 
>than a couple of days and it only lasted for a couple of weeks before I 
>started getting seek errors on it also.
>
>I don't feel that the Seagate drives can hold up to the workout that unix
>gives them.
We've been using ST4096 for about 2 years (16 drives, 2/system) under SV/AT,
WD1003-WA2.  The only problem with a drive that we've had is when one system
was thrown off the back of a truck. Then the drive made real funny screeching
noises when it was turned on. No funny smell, just the noises... and lots of
i/o errors. The drive is currently being rebuilt, just to see if that's a
reasonable thing to do. Trying to use RLL controllers, the 4096 seemed too
flakey to use.
>[stuff deleted...] I
>have now switched to two of the CDC Wren ESDI drives and am very happy with 
>the results.
>
Good to hear, thanks.
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Mike Murphy  Sceard Systems, Inc.  544 South Pacific St. San Marcos, CA  92069
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