Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 10:10:27 From: "Jake Hamby" <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARGH! Message-ID: <199611261811.KAA22022@covina.lightside.com>
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>So, I was really psyched on Friday when I got my new Seagate Medalist as a
>replacement for my failing Quantum 1080S. I paused briefly at the
>"Refurbished" sticker on the static bag, but figured, "it's an RMA,
>they're not going to send me a new drive.."
>
>Well, I sure wish they did. This morning, my alarm ("at 7:15 mixer line 50")
>didn't wake me up. I woke up around 7:45 to a few timeout messages on the
>console and a hung system. "Darned 2.2-ALPHA," I thought. I rebooted,
>and the SCSI BIOS hung while trying to probe the drive. I turned the machine
>off and on, and the new drive spun up and then started going CRUNCHACRUNCH
>CLATTERCLATTER. Hooray.
>
>So Seagate is going to send me another drive, I might have it by next week,
>and who knows if this one is going to last more than 3 days either.
>
>Sigh, back to Windows NT...
Obviously, the solution is to stick Windows NT on the Seacrate drive and you'll
have killed two birds with one stone... :-)
-- Jake
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