Patrick Santucci writes:
>
> Kara Strunk a.k.a. MMRI CS ListServ wrote:
>
> > We lost another 9 gig Jamaica drive this morning.  That makes 6 drives that
> > we've had to replace since August when we installed the cabinets with 32
> > drives.  Not a great track record!  Thankfully, the mirror kicked in and
> > production was unaffected this time.
>
> Kara, are you using full-height 4-to-a-box or half-height 8-to-a-box 9GB
> drives in your Jamaicas? And what model of system, OS rev, Mirror/iX
> version, etc. are you running? Just trying to pinpoint if this is a
> hardware, I/O bottleneck, software/subsys, or OS problem.
>
> I'm desparately curious because it looks like we may be going the way of
> the 9GB drives very soon!

OK, OK, all this talk has now got me curious too.

Our big new 9000/V2250 is supposed to be delivered next month, and guess what,
it will contain 3 Jamaica enclosures fully populated with half-height 9GB
drives running MirrorDisk/UX on HPUX 11.0.

If anybody is seeing these 9GB failures on 9000 machines, please chime in.
Thanks.
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