[SunRescue] HD's in sun IPX !

[Michael C. Vergallen]

Nope I doubdt it because if that was the case my pile of old suns would
have had fried disc's every week. I think that my disc was just old ! Will
check when I pull the disc but in my case I would guess that because the
machine is used as a mail & homedirectory server so lots of writes &
deletes to a section of the disc that the platters ended up being worn
out after to my recollection 6 or 8 years ( I think the latter) of 24/7
uptime it is normal that the disc is starting to fail ( normaly they only
last 5 years in my environment ). Luckily I found a replacement disc
without a lot of problem. Ordered a few disc's today so to have some
SCSI 50pins as spares because you really have to be lucky to still find
them. Should be here tomorrow, I just told the person at
www.hitechcafe.com to UPS Red them to me because I need to have my data
archives on-line and now I have to search trough the hardcopy's of them
and that is hell if you are like me and have a room full of paper's but
don't have a decent way to store the documents so you just pile everything
is whatever folder or closset you can to have it out of the way. You end
up not being able to find anything. Becuase the index of my storage system
is on the now defunct mail server's disc.

Michael
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Ron Nguyen wrote:

> Has anyone else experienced HD failures in IPX (or any lunch boxes for that
> matter)?  The reason I ask is because I recently had a couple of HDs go bad
> in my IPX's.  One was a 2GB the other was a 4GB.  They were in two differing
> IPX's and happened within about four months apart.  I'm wondering if it might
> be due to heat or something.  They originally came with 200 or 400 MB drives.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ron Nguyen
> 
> "Michael C. Vergallen" wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've seen that hitechcafe has 3.5 GB Disc's for sale, the DSP3210. now my
> > question is will it work in a IPX ?
> >
> > Michael
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> > Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike,
> > Sportstraat 28                  http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/
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> > Belgium                         tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976
> >
> >
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