From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 16 09:51:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07310 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linus.intrastar.net (root@linus.intrastar.net [206.136.25.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA07282; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fixed.intrastar.net (jakes@fixed.intrastar.net [206.136.25.69]) by linus.intrastar.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA10635; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:50:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970416114909.00689574@linus.intrastar.net> X-Sender: jsuter@linus.intrastar.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:49:09 -0500 To: CIOE Admin , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, maartje@simplex.nlfreebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Jacob Suter Subject: Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 rpm in a newsmachine?Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 Cc: maartje@simplex.nl In-Reply-To: <199704161613.LAA04228@news.cioe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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