From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 28 18:50:53 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA02182 for current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 18:50:53 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02173 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 18:50:46 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id VAA11818; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 21:49:10 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504290149.VAA11818@hda.com> Subject: Re: wcarchive.cdrom.com (also known as ftp.freebsd.org) back up. To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 21:49:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504281657.JAA14637@violet.berkeley.edu> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 28, 95 09:57:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 911 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > We subsequently had some rather significant hardware hurdles to jump over, > not the least of which was 3 brand-new Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB hard drives > going south unexpectedly. Given that this is 4 GPs I've lost in 4 weeks > (2 of which died in completely different environmental circumstances, so > it's not just our machine room), I think it's safe to say that Quantum may > be having some quality control problems with these drives! :-( I've > switched back to the Seagate Barracuda drives and all seems happy again. > The Seagates are even about $100 cheaper, so my traditional prejudice against > Seagate may be weakening here. Could someone provide details on the drive failures? Thanks. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267