Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:13:43 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net, karl@mcs.com, Peter.Delaney@eng.sun.com, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net.hq.icb.chel.su, fnf@amigalib.com, bardhan@corp.megatest.com, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, karl@mcs.net Subject: Re: 4GB Seagate Barracuda (Hawk Replacement) goes nuts after a while Message-ID: <199512270913.OAA09599@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199512270613.WAA22791@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Dec 26, 95 10:13:55 pm
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[skipped] > > 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. > > Nice of seagate to replace your drive with a faster one except that the > Barracuda series is pretty much known as a lemon do to overheating > problems and media that likes to flake :-(. [skipped] > I have been avoiding Seagate drives for about the past 5 years. Some times > I have used them due to the fact that they made the only drive in the right > capacity/performance/price point. Infact I sold 2 and 4G hawks for a short > period of time earlier this year since I was having a very hard time getting > any Quantum or Micropolis drives in that size. I have noticed an interesting fact. Hard disks of some menufacturers when purchased in brand-name computers are much more stable than when purchased independently. Seagate is a good example. We have a couple of Seagate 1G Hawks in ICLs and they are working very stable. DEC uses Seagate Barracuda as their RZ-29 disks and they work stable too. But when we purchased two Hawks directly from a Seagate dealers we had lots of troubles with them. We had like problems with Micropolis. It looks like computer manufacturers do some additional testing and/or low-level formatting or HDD manufacturers divide their disks by cathegories using some tests. -SB
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