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From: pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Robert A. Monio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Problems with external SCSI devices on RC3240
Message-ID: <8533@dmshq.mn.org>
Date: 5 Apr 91 20:58:38 GMT
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In article <4165@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>From article <8530@dmshq.mn.org>, by pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Robert A. Monio):
>> The only other problems we've seen with the M-120s has been with the
>> 348MB drives.  The MIPS-supplied units seem to have a mean failure
>> rate of 6 months per drive....
>
>You means the 94171's?  Yessir, the two that came with our M/120 went
>south at 4 months and 7 months.  One of the replacements that arrived
>was DOA, too.  In three months the first one that died went out again,
>and again a year later.

"Yes!  That is correct, sir!  Yes!" 

Your record with those drives is a bit more pronounced than ours was,
but needless to say we've suggested that anyone who replaces their
drive replace it with the 94191 variety..  :-).

>They're all working now, though! :-)

Sure they are...   :-).


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