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Hi All, |
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Guess what? Another defective hard drive -- a bad block. This time, it was a |
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new (Jul 2000) IBM 30 gigger. We're now running on an IBM 15 Gb drive and |
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hoping that it will survive the next week :/ No data was lost. We seem to |
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be losing 15Gb every two weeks... hopefully, IBM will replace these drives |
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in time. |
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I'm trying to find some reason for the multiple drive failures in such a |
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short period of time. The only thing I can find is that both defective |
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drives were manufactured at IBM's Hungary plant in ~Jul 2000. I'm guessing |
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there's a batch of bad hard drives coming from there, maybe due to a batch |
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of bad parts or low quality control at this particular plant? Anyways, I |
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have a 45Gb drive (matching the one that failed a week or two ago, also made |
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in Hungary at about the same time) and we'll see if *it* lasts. |
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Remember: system failures always happen on Sundays |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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