From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 09:20:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28470 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:20:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA28373 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA03869; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:28:54 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702171628.RAA03869@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? To: stesin@gu.net Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:28:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Stesin" at Feb 17, 97 09:13:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying: > > > > > one of our IDE disks failed (btw these WDC AC31600H are particularly > > > bad, we have had at least 10 failed units out of about 20; luckily > > > they come with a 3 yr guarantee!) > > > > Hmm, we had one die on us too, similar errors. > > I'd add that WDC 31200 are no better -- 2 of them died on me > since Jan. 1st. > > Is this kind of failure rate common to all those cheap IDE Western' > drives? for my experience, yes. Too bad, since they are quite fast -- about 5MB/s for the 31600 ... Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________