In a previous life we had a similar setup. When the system 'stopped' one evening the RC and engineer put the blame on the drive. Since we were about to do the backup (24 hour*7 shop) this was not a good sign, a reload was not the best solution. In a last ditch attempt to avert the reload we took the drives out, re-inserted them and restarted, a number of times. Eventually the system booted with all drives OK! The engineer then took another look at the enclosure/drives and decided it was in fact the enclosure back plane. We ran for 2 days with another potential failure hanging over us until the back plane was replaced. We had no more problems with the drives! I'm not saying that drives don't fail, but sometimes it is the easiest thing to put the blame on. Inserting a new drive may flex the back plane enough to temporarily solve the problem, maybe! Tony Cousins -----Original Message----- From: Neil Harvey [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 8:03 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Help! 4.3 gb drives failing 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.