tlug: hard disk failure

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Scott Stone writes:
 > 
 > Sorry if ume.pht.co.jp was bouncing mail earlier - the brand-new 8.4GB
 > Maxtor IDE disk that I installed less than a week ago went out last night.
 > At least 20-30 bad sectors on the drive, looks like (no idea how/why).
 > Never had a drive fail that quickly before.
 > 
 > Anyway, the data was (mostly) recovered and we're back online.  Sorry if
 > there were 'undeliverable mail' messages being thrown about.
My brother had some problems with the Maxtor 8.4. He had to limit the
PIO mode to PIO3 I think. I have the same drive, but I am using it
with UDMA which works fine. I think there was also a test by the
German magazine C`t where they talked about problems with the Maxtor.

Marcus

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