Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 11:39:36 -0800 From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net> To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, karl@mcs.com Cc: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net, 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: <199512271939.AA02353@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
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Morning Karl:
> > 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
>
> No, the issue is elsewhere.
>
> Look to handling. Many distributors and resellers abuse the drives when
> stocking them or otherwise handling them in the course of retailing.
>
> Shock will cause drives to fail -- and not always immediately. Anything
> which damages or nicks the media, even slightly, will eventually result in
> drive failure.
In this case rebooting the disk fixes the problem, usually for a
day or two, perhaps more. If the media is dammaged I believe the problem
is recurring all the time, like my DAT tapes when I've got a write error,
the write ok, but on reading they get a media error, but then no matter
what I do, the error is always there. If I write a DAT and it reads ok, then
it seem to alreays read back ok. Seem the dat doesn't check what it writes.
I've never seen a media error that goes away by rebooting.
-piet
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