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Date:      Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:40:59 -0800
From:      Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Cc:        karl@mcs.com, Peter.Delaney@eng.sun.com, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, fnf@amigalib.com, bardhan@corp.megatest.com, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, karl@mcs.net
Subject:   4GB Seagate Barracuda (Hawk Replacement) goes nuts after a while
Message-ID:  <199512270340.AA01488@RockyMountain.rahul.net>

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Hi Rodney (et. al.):

    Seagate replaced the 4GB Hawk with a repaired 4GB Barracuda but I seem to
have a problem after Solaris 2.4 (without any patches) has been running for a 
while but not doing anything. I suppose the nfsd is scanning the disk once per
night but other than that it's wasn't doing much. It seems to get in a state
where some SCSI reads are taking a few seconds. I shutdown openwin (took about
5 mins) and then ran format and scan'ed the disk. It was stopping at some sectors
for as long as perhaps 20 seconds and then moving on. I can hear the drive makeing
a lot of noise, kind of like the Hawk before it died. I suppose it's time to back
up the drive, I fear this is going to require my replacing the drive yet again. 
For years I haven't had any trouble with my Micropolus 1.7GB and 1GB drives. My
experience with the Seagate is leading me to believe I should avoid Seagate in 
the future. The drive is very well cooled, so it's not a heat problem.

Any thoughts?

-piet



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