Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!princeton!deadzone!marcelo From: marcelo@deadzone.uucp (Marcelo Gallardo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: AUX and hard drives Message-ID: <1991Jun21.015348.961@deadzone.uucp> Date: 21 Jun 91 01:53:48 GMT References: <1991Jun18.155914.24331@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jun20.120430.13058@athena.mit.edu> Organization: DeadZone * A/UX 2.0.1 SVR2 * 609-443-4762 Lines: 53 sorensen@athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) writes: >Thanks to all who responded. >One of my respondents warned me strongly away from Maxtor drives, >recounting some bad experiences. >Is this universal experience? APS has a great deal on the Maxtor 340 MB >(only $1189 external), that I am tempted... I've been using a Maxtor LT-100 as my root partition for about a year now. It's been working better than the Quantum 120 which houses my /usr partition. Well They've both been up and running without loosing any info, the Quantum just generates "Disk write c0d0s2 retry #1 successful." every once in a while. Never was able to figure out how to stop that. On a slightly different note, how many people use SyQuest cartridges with A/UX. I've been using mine for a while now and have noticed a few problems. First, it doesn't like having "big" programs compiled on it. Tried compiling "rn" on it once, and I received a "PANIC: while freeing inode" crash. Happened on a few other programs of that size as well. It also seems to constantly have read problems like the following... Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17 Logical block 34064, physical blocks 34160-34167 Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17 Logical block 34224, physical blocks 34320-34327 Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17 Logical block 34752, physical blocks 34848-34855 Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17 Logical block 35248, physical blocks 35344-35351 After a while (a few months) of use, I loose directories and files. Luckily I make backups, and I just re-format the cartridge and re-make the file system. I did have one cartridge go so bad, that it couldn't be formatted. Of course I used that cart for more than a year though. Anyone else have similar problems, or does everyone do the normal thing and just use SyQuests for Mac apps and backups? Sorry for the long winded posting 8-). -- Marcelo Gallardo marcelo%deadzone@princeton.edu Test and Evaluation Specialist ...!princeton!deadzone!marcelo Princeton University marcelo@sparcwood.princeton.edu Advanced Technologies and Applications (609) 258-5661