Our clients have also experienced failures of these 4.3GB drives (Half Height in a HASS). Also usually early in the cycle - but cartainly NO less inconvenient. In future, it may become policy to install new drives in a private volume, exercise the #$%@ out of them for a few weeks, power cycle them a LOT, and then move them tentatively into production, and advise the client to pay HP. Regards Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: Paveza, Gary [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 2:50 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Help! 4.3 gb drives failing > > If you are referring to the 4.3 Seagate drives in the Jamacia > enclosures, we use them rather extensively (around 100+ of them). > They work rather well, but we also notice that usually when we install > a large number of them, we get a few failures right away. If you can > make it past around the first month or so, you should be fine with > only minimal failures. I can only guess that some batches of the > discs are destined to fail fast. > > Gary L. Paveza, Jr. > Technical Support Specialist > All opinions are mine and not those of my employer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Perna [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 11:32 PM > To: [log in to unmask]@inetgw > Subject: Help! 4.3 gb drives failing > > We have installed the new storage unit that holds 8 of the new 4.3 gb > drives (we have 4 drives installed in this unit). These drives were > installed just two weeks ago and we've since had 2 of the drives fail. > And since they didn't fail at the same time we've been busy doing > reloads. My question to all of you is: Is anyone else having > problems > with these drives or was this just a fluke? We're down right now and > any input about the reliablitity of these drives is appreciated.