Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!HUCSC.HARVARD.EDU!lotto%lhasa From: lotto%lhasa@HUCSC.HARVARD.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Second try to post Eagle II debate Message-ID: <8701311749.AA29682@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 10:14:53 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8701311749.AA29682 Posted: Sat Jan 31 10:14:53 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 20:28:09 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 21 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa >> also: of about 8 super eagles here at the U of U, most, if not all have >> come DOA or died with 1-3 months....eagles have been perfect.... Fujitsu has >HDA's replaced within 3 months. Of the replaced HDA's, two have died >already. This makes 5 catastrophic failures out of 8 HDA's. Deaths seem We also have had many problems. Two out of three died fairly fast. The third worked just fine. The latest combination of a rev D0 or greater HDA and the Emulex QD-32 prom v2.2 or greater seems to have solved the problem. Are any of the crashed drives out there of a D0 vintage? What controllers were being used? I think we had best try to collect some statistics, these beasties are expensive! ____________ Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept. UUCP: {seismo,harpo,ihnp4,linus,allegra,ut-sally}!harvard!endor!lhasa!lotto ARPA: lotto@harvard.harvard.edu or lotto@harvard.ARPA CSNET: lotto%harvard@csnet-relay