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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD + CDC + Emulex
Message-ID: <6736@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 14:46:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 18 14:46:56 1987
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <7424@brl-adm.ARPA> rackow@anl-mcs.arpa (Gene Rackow) writes:
>We have been using the CDC 9771 drives for about 4 years.  The longest time
>one has gone without a HEAD-CRASH is 16 months.  The average is about
>10 months. ... We have had CDC in to repair the drives time and time
>again.  Each time they claim we are the only site with this kind of
>trouble ....

You are not the only site.  We have had two for more than one year, and
a third for about 6 months.  The average time to death of the first two
has been 12 months (10 on one, 14 on the other).  The third one has not
been around long enough to die yet.

Restoring 670 megabytes is such fun,
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