[rescue] limited shelf life of hard drives ?

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 04:08, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:52:19PM -0400, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> > I bet if I pull my old Micropolis 600Meg 5.25" full height drives out
> > of Storage
> 
> There's a reason they're called "Micrapolis"....  When I was at Texas.Net
> in '97-98, we had so many problems that we even pulled *working* drives
> out of service and replaced them with other brands.

yeah... they had real lemons in the end... but I used mainly the older
stuff... the "black bricks" as I used to call them...

-- Curt

> 
> Bill