On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:29:56 -0600, "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At 11:18 AM 12.20.2002 +0000, David Gethings wrote: > >On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 11:15, Laszlo Vagner wrote: > >> western digital is notorious for that, what brand are you using? > >> > >> just curious. > >Maxtor something-or-other. > > > >Dg > > > > Beware of Quantum Fireballs -- bought two of the 40GBers and the jumpers > would NOT work properly -- according to the BIOS on several different > machines tried. Had to do the opposite of the diagrams for mastering, but > slaves would NOT work period on either one. One died after a couple of > months -- brand new! Moved the "survivor" to a less-important machine to > do > test routine duties -- peeling potatoes and shelling peas! > > Never again....
I'm not a sysadmin at work but I know several, who told me they had to change out all the Quantum Fireballs here at our 1000-seat campus. They were dropping like flies and it wasted too much of everyone's time replacing them one-by-one as they failed. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
