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From: User BURTON <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com>
To: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
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        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ?
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Andrew Stesin wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Best regards,
> Andrew Stesin
> 
> nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
> 
> 
> 

I can't comment on any other drives, but I have a WDC AC21600H with no 
problems since 8/96 when I installed it.