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From: lacasse@randvax.UUCP (Mark LaCasse)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone experienced Super-Eagle (Fujitsu M2361) problems?
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Date: Sat, 6-Dec-86 06:31:57 EST
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I brought up one Fujitsu M2361 "Super Eagle" here about 3 months ago.
It was on an Emulex SC7003 controller to a Vax 11/780.

The scuttlebut was that the reason our drive failed was that it
had an HDA revison number of <= D3.  D4 and above is supposed to be OK.
[I could be wrong and it you could need D5 to be OK.  I can't remember
if D4 is OK or not.]

The failure mode for D3 and earlier is that immediately to after six
months of perfect operation, it is prone to the seal around the main
bearing for the platters giving way.  This causes bearing oil to get
in the HDA and on the platters.  :-(

Our salesman said we were clear and this wasn't our problem, because
the drive said D5 on the back.  (By "said" I mean the first numbers not
crossed out.)  Turned out this was the rev. number of the power supply.
You have to look inside the drive to find the HDA rev. number.  I think
ours was D2.  Anyway, it failed.

Since Fujitsu fixed ours on warranty (HDA swap) it has been find.  Too
had the HDA fix took them two months at their plant!

If it makes you feel any better, we have about 12 Eagle Is (M2351) hear,
some for as long as 4 or so years, and I don't think any have ever died.


      Mark LaCasse                  qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!lacasse
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