Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 15:08:25 -0300 (EST) From: Durval Menezes <durval@liliput.tmp.com.br> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, michael@memra.com, hdalog@zipnet.net, dror@hopf.dnai.com, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ERROR info:747d9d asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error, other SCSI issues Message-ID: <199606081808.PAA27548@liliput.tmp.com.br> In-Reply-To: <199606081427.QAA04029@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jun 8, 96 04:27:02 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello, > > >Maybe Quantum's engineering does something wierd internally and doesn't > > >test their drives on a real world activity mix that includes UNIX. > > > > That would be hard to believe, considering that Quantum drives ship in > > some HP Workstations, among others... > > And in lots of Digital Equipment machines... > > In general: I have yet to hear of a manufacturer that never has 'junk' > drive types every now and then. In the last 6 months, 4 of the sites I do consulting for had disk failures. All of them were using Quantum 2GB Empire drives... Also, I recall that about 1 1/2 years ago Seagate had a disastrous run of the Barracuda drives around (those with firmware revision level less than 12) that locked solid under heavy disk I/O. Best regards, -- Durval Menezes (durval@tmp.com.br, http://www.tmp.com.br/~durval)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199606081808.PAA27548>