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From: ghg@pur-ee.UUCP (George Goble)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Super Eagles Bounce Back
Message-ID: <6907@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 08:36:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.6907
Posted: Sun Oct 18 08:36:45 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Oct-87 00:04:57 EDT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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Keywords: disk head crash reliability

We got seven of the first REV-E0 Super Eagles in March 1987 
and began testing them on Gould 9080 machines.  Pounded them
real hard with our local disk test for 2-3 months and put them
into service in the June-July time frame.  Our local burnin only
found 1 correctable ECC error (over 7 drives) which wasn't
in the Vendor Flaw Map. We have had only 1 retry (correctable ecc)
on one drive happen only once since they went into production.
This beats about anything else we have seen. No more "hard"
errors or "crashes" anymore since the E0 rev HDA came out.

Also, at least 12 Super Eagles have gone into production on Sun
servers here (seven F0 and five E0 revs I think) from March 87
thru Aug 87.  No problems on them either.

Clyde Biggs of Fujitsu America says the F0 rev is just "minor"
changes and not a Media change.  As you probably know, the E0
media had the amount of Alumina raised to be equal to or greater
than that of the regular Eagle, making it tougher and not fly off
the rim.

George Goble
Engineering Computer Network
Purdue Univ
W. Lafayette, IN 47907

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