Re: Disk Failure

Neil posted the warning month(s) ago about the drives & the ptf's. Has
anyone
applied the ptf's and THEN had the problem?
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Hall" <pbhall@execpc.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: Disk Failure


> At 14:29 07/09/2001, Al Barsa wrote:
> >My financial system is a model 270 with 6 10,000 RPM 8 GB DASD units.  I
> >had my first failure last Tuesday on that system, which was protected by
> >RAID-5.  The disk was replaced later on Tuesday.  Today (Monday) I have
had
> >another unit on that system fail, just six days apart.
>
> Had a similar situation with a new S30 several years ago. Two drives in a
> week. After that, no more trouble. Apparently the M in MTBF is
significant.
> Does make one review his/her backup strategy though.
> Pete Hall
> pbhall@execpc.com
> http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
>
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