Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!xylogics!transfer!lectroid!jjmhome!m2c!umvlsi!umaecs!amh!tgoldin From: tgoldin@amherst.bitnet Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Conner's disk & controller experience. Message-ID: <9238.25f7ca4b@amherst.bitnet> Date: 9 Mar 90 15:22:51 GMT References: <1581@cernvax.UUCP> <40970051@hpindda.HP.COM> <12957@udenva.cair.du.edu> Lines: 11 In article <12957@udenva.cair.du.edu>, news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes: > the store i work for just started selling these drives, (IDE, tho, rather than > SCSI) and i think they are awesome! you can stick your ear on the case and > it will boot SILENTLY! very impresive.. attractive too heheh Yeah, we have a few and they are pretty quite, but one of them just crashed (after only four months). the drive fails "initialization." I tried all of the usual tricks (checking connections, etc.) and it is definately dead. ..I'll post again if there are further details. Theo