HD quality (was: Maxtor drive goes under)

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Jan 17 22:49:00 2003

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, M H Stein wrote:

> -----------Original message---------------
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:06:29 -0800 (PDT)
> From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Maxtor drive goes under
> Reply-To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> > Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>
> > > The drive we were having problems
> > > with were 2 and 4 gig drives. These had a servo information
> > > corruption problem ( that by design would always fail over time ).
> >
> > Guess that rules out Kalok then. They bit the big one in 1994, way before
> > 2GB and 4GB drives started appearing...
>
> I'm going to guess Micropolis. Those drives were absolutely crap.
>
> -brian.
> ---------------------------------------------
> And then there was JTS...

That is the sucker that I was racking my brain for when this dialogue
began. The "JT" stood for Jugi Tandon of floppy, early hard disk, and
PC fame. Ugh!
                                                - don

> Other than Kalok and JTS, the only drives I consistently had problems
> with were the old ST-200 series Seagates. Mind you, they ran 24/7 for several
> years, but ultimately all (4 or 5) developed the stickies. Always embarrassing,
> because the systems were only shut down by me doing some kind of
> maintenance or mods, the old "but it worked fine until you touched it"
> syndrome. Fortunately, all they needed was a little prying & twisting with a
> small screwdriver on the spindle to free them up, and remarkably, they
> worked fine again with no problems or errors (to my great relief, and until
> the next time I shut them down). No problems with the old miniscribes
> though, still have a box full, all working, and no unusual failure rates with
> Micropolis either; it really is a matter of personal experience, not very
> meaningful statistically.
>
> And Philip, I'm going to write you directly about that paper tape stuff as
> soon as I sort it out; promise!
>
> mike
>
>
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