Re: re[2]: Storage

["Dave Emmerson" <dave@xitroneurope.com>]

Hi Alan,

> If all of those were on the same machine (the three IDE's) I'd be checking
out the power supply, something has gone screwey!

I can't imagine many people using a 12 year old PC, nor finding ISA cards
for EIDE drives :-)  But I think you're close to the mark, I'd look for
spikes and surges on the mains, and fit suppressors. That's too many
failures for sheer 'bad luck'.

D.

 >>  I've had several SCSI drives fail over the last twelve years.
 >>  Maxtors, Connors, FWBs, IBMs et al. All in all, I've had at least
 >>  twenty SCSI drive failures. Nothing can match the three IDE drives I
 >>  had fail over the last two weeks, though. Fujitsu & IBM & Western
 >>  Digital this time.




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