Have you looked at possible hazards in the immediate
environment the system is in? ie, is it hot, is the drive
close to a faulty power supply that gets real hot, etc...
Is the system ever physically moved around or possibly
on a desk that could get bumped alot. Sounds crazy
but I have seen little things like these cause problems.
We have a portable machine on a roller cart and we lost
two drives in it and the only thing we could see that would
possibly cause this is a large crevice that the operator
would ram the cart over and litterally jar the entire system.
I saw him do this once and the montior got all tweaked out
of picture for a moment, Needless to say, he paid for the
second drive in the machine. (a 4.5 gig UW SCSI)
Anyways, just a few things to look at
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Western Digital
>On Mon, 11 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ** Reply to note from "Damond Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 11 May
1998 09:19:57
>> -0400
>> > Is it just me, or do Western Digital drives fail as much for
everyone
>> > else as they do for me. I've had to replace the same 1.2 gig drive
three
>> > times in the last year. I just replaced this drive (via RMA) about two
>> > weeks ago...it's failed before I could send the old one in!
>>
>> years and a 850 meg WD Caviar for the last three years both of which are
in my BBS/personal
>> use machine with nary a problem. Both drives incure heavy usage and are
up 24/7. Sure hope
>> your experiences with the WD's aren't a sign of slipping quality control
on WD's part as I plan to
>> buy WD again when upgrading the harddrive system.
>
>Hmm, we've had a lot of trouble lately with WD drives crapping out. On one
>system in Claiborne Parish we've replaced the drive THREE TIMES. The last
>one only lasted three weeks before starting to give hard errors again :-(.
>
>The strange thing is that we have WD drives out there that are five years
>old and not giving a lick of trouble. And it's not just any particular
>size drive that is giving the trouble... we've had WD drives of all sizes
>go wonky. Heck, my WD 3.0gb drive at home has a stiction problem
>(sometimes won't spin back up after being powered down), which is why my
>new drive is a Quantum :-}. (Not to mention that Quantum makes good
>low-cost SCSI drives and most other manufacturers don't seem to anymore,
>maybe because of the way the Mac market has so rapidly imploded).
>
>Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants
>Systems Specialist Educational Administration Solutions
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>
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