AUX and hard drives

[Marcelo Gallardo]

sorensen at athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) writes:

>Thanks to all who responded.

>One of my respondents warned me strongly away from Maxtor drives,
>recounting some bad experiences.

>Is this universal experience? APS has a great deal on the Maxtor 340 MB
>(only $1189 external), that I am tempted...


	I've been using a Maxtor LT-100 as my root partition for about a
	year now. It's been working better than the Quantum 120 which
	houses my /usr partition. Well They've both been up and running
	without loosing any info, the Quantum just generates "Disk write
	c0d0s2 retry #1 successful." every once in a while. Never was
	able to figure out how to stop that.

	On a slightly different note, how many people use SyQuest
	cartridges with A/UX. I've been using mine for a while now and
	have noticed a few problems. First, it doesn't like having "big"
	programs compiled on it. Tried compiling "rn" on it once, and I
	received a "PANIC: while freeing inode" crash. Happened on a few
	other programs of that size as well.

	It also seems to constantly have read problems like the
	following...

	Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17
	Logical block 34064, physical blocks 34160-34167
	Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17
	Logical block 34224, physical blocks 34320-34327
	Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17
	Logical block 34752, physical blocks 34848-34855
	Disk read c4d0s3 Error: Recovered error, code = 0x17
	Logical block 35248, physical blocks 35344-35351

	After a while (a few months) of use, I loose directories and
	files. Luckily I make backups, and I just re-format the
	cartridge and re-make the file system. I did have one cartridge
	go so bad, that it couldn't be formatted. Of course I used that
	cart for more than a year though.

	Anyone else have similar problems, or does everyone do the
	normal thing and just use SyQuests for Mac apps and backups?

	Sorry for the long winded posting 8-).

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