From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 14 03:07:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA00680 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 03:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xs1.simplex.nl (xs1.simplex.NL [193.78.46.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA00673 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 03:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from knudde (knudde.simplex.nl [193.78.46.27]) by xs1.simplex.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5-RS) with SMTP id MAA13222; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:04:37 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:04:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199704141004.MAA13222@xs1.simplex.nl> X-Sender: maartje@pop.simplex.nl X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Maartje van der Heide Subject: Micropolis 3243 7200 rpm in a newsmachine? Cc: maartje@simplex.nl Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, While upgrading my newsmachine the first two days I lost 2 Micropolis harddisks. One of the 1.5 year old disks (older type but 7200 rpm) only made alot of noise after restarting the machine, and the replacement Micropolis harddisk that worked fine in a Windows 95 machine, showed alot of bad blocks after being placed in the newsmachine. So we again replaced it, this time with a grand new Micropolis 3243 3.5" 1.625" high. And now, about three weeks later this one gave up too (too many bad blocks to reallocate). (It's one of three 4 Gb Micropolis harddisks (SCSI) concatenated for the newsdata, fun fun, gone gone) Now, is this just bad luck, since we had the micropolis harddisks working for one and half year without a single problem? The rotational speed is 7200 rpm, is it too much for a newsmachine (will it heat up too much) ? Or will there be no problem when I buy a separate box to hold (and cool) the disks? Thanks in advance, Maartje van der Heide Sysop Simplex maartje@simplex.nl