[rescue] Re: Drive Reliability (was SCSI drive for sale at buy.com)

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:22:31 -0500
>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Drive Reliability (was SCSI drive for sale at  
buy.com)
>
>On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Jeffrey Nonken wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to remember if Micropolis was the brand I had with the heads
>> that would stick... or maybe that was Mitsubishi.
>
>That'd be a Micrapolis and certain older Seagates.
>
>> They'd stick to the platter. When you powered them up, you either had to
>> shock the drive enough to unstick the heads, or manually turn the stepper
>> motor. Both of those being wonderful things to do to a hard drive.
>
>SGI field service had a policy of taking the drive out and slamming it
>sideways on a desk.  Later, they moved to a small rubber mallet,
>probably because of the customer reaction to slamming a drive on a desk.

And the customer reacted any better to a field service tech using a mallet
on his hard drive ! :-)

Well, it was rubber right ?  how harmful could it be ? :-)

>
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