Re: tlug: hard disk failure

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:

> 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.

NOW you tell me :)

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