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Article #1577Re: Fuji Super Eagle Problems
From: sherouse
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1987 13:46
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1987 13:46
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As previously reported in this forum our two SI9761 drives both blew out - one at 4 months and the other at ~9 months. For both the failure mode was as has been widely reported - a practically geometric increase in bad block count over a few days, appearing to afflict only recently written blocks. The fix was to replace the HDAs. We subscribed to the myth that we were seeing a fault in some early rev of the drives. This weekend the myth and one of our *replacement* HDAs failed. This HDA was replaced less than a month ago. Our replacement is en route from California. This makes three in less than a year. For what it's worth the first HDA was replaced about 6 months ago and has given no trouble since. It was one of the first that SI experienced this failure problem with. I offer these facts without editorial comment. When the big eagles work, we love them - especially in combination with SI's cache controller. Stay tuned for more thrilling updates. - George <decvax!mcnc!godot!sherouse>
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!godot!sherouse From: sherouse@godot.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.misc Subject: Re: Fuji Super Eagle Problems Message-ID: <735@godot.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 08:46:45 EST Article-I.D.: godot.735 Posted: Wed Feb 4 08:46:45 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 11:28:31 EST References: <493@savax.UUCP> Reply-To: sherouse@godot.UUCP (George W. Sherouse) Organization: Radiation Oncology, NCMH/UNC, Chapel Hill Lines: 23 Keywords: Disk failures Summary: The Myth Explodes