Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:49:09 -0500 From: Jacob Suter <jsuter@linus.intrastar.net> To: CIOE Admin <cioe@news.cioe.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, maartje@simplex.nlfreebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: maartje@simplex.nl Subject: Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 rpm in a newsmachine?Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970416114909.00689574@linus.intrastar.net> In-Reply-To: <199704161613.LAA04228@news.cioe.com>
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>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* Check your power. Dirty power can be a real nightmare. For that many drives I'd say a large UPS attached to at least a 300W power supply (or two). JS
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