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Subject: Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 rpm in a newsmachine?Re: Micropolis 3243 7200
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> Now, is this just bad luck, since we had the micropolis harddisks 
> working for one and half year without a single problem?
> The rotational speed is 7200 rpm, is it too much for a newsmachine
> (will it heat up too much) ? Or will there be no problem when I
> buy a separate box to hold (and cool) the disks? 

I'm on my third set up of micropolis disks. Mine are smaller 2G variety
(4421). All seem to exhibit the same behavior. The work fine for a few
days, then they start spewing errors accross my screen, then they start
causeing a crash or reboot every coouple of hours, and then they die.
I'm having areally hard time believing three sets of bad drives, so I'm
swapping my controller card (adaptec 2940) out with a newer 2940. *shrug*
maybe swap the SCSI cable as well. None of these things quite fit the
symptons though. The drives crashing does. *sigh*

					-steve