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From: herbert!doug@cs.utexas.edu (Doug Phillipson 5-0134)
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Subject: Pinnacle Optical Drives
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 30 May 90 23:16:38 GMT
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Does anyone have any experience with Pinnacle Optical drives in so far as
their reliability. I have a REO 1300 and have found it to be unreliable. I
get lots of errors like:

reo1:  rezero failed
reo1a:  read retry
       sense key(0x0): no sense
reo1a:  read retry
       sense key(0x0): no sense
reo1a:  read retry
       sense key(0x0): no sense
reo1a:  read retry,  block 210368
       sense key(0x4): hardware error,  error code(0x2): No ESDI command complete

And "newfs" fails frequently. Please Email me your experiences and I will
post a summary.

Douglas Phillipson (EG&G)