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From: mike@nyquist.bellcore.com (Mike Lukacs 21341)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: HP 400t (Mentor) disk problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.221526.12520@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 22:15:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.230020.12004@amd.com>
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In article <1991Apr22.230020.12004@amd.com>, dwork@brahms.amd.com (Jeff
Dwork) writes:
|> 
|> We have had two HP400t disk crashes out of about 10 systems.  One was a real
|> head crash, the other a mysterious problem which went away when the disk was
|> invol'd and restored from backup.  All our systems came from Mentor
|> Graphics.  We are running SR 10.3.
|> 
|> Are these just bad luck or should we expect more of the same?
|> 
|> Thanks for your help.
|> --
|> Jeff Dwork			|  408-749-2356 	|  dwork@AMD.COM
|> Advanced Micro Devices, M/S 45	|---------------------------------------
|> PO Box 3453			|  The above opionions are mine,
|> Sunnyvale, Ca 94088		|  not AMD's.

Just Bad Luck,  My 8 400t nodes have had Zero disk problems in ~8months.
(lost one sony monitor horiz scan)   That problem fixed by invol was not a
disk crash but a transient error that wrote to a baaad place.  We had this 
happen once due to major power glitches.  (the same glitches caused >$10,000.
damage to a VAX. )

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