On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:52:23 +0100, Baron wrote:
> Meat Plow wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:43:33 +0100, Baron wrote:
>>
>>> Franc Zabkar wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:43:03 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
>>>> <arfa.daily@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> put finger to keyboard and composed:
>>>>
>>>>>My first suspicion was that something had happened to the mother
>>>>>board's IDE driver IC, but the Windoze diagnostic said that it was
ok.
>>>>>Further checks disconnecting stuff, showed the problem to be the
>>>>>Seagate drive that was hanging up the channel 1 IDE bus. As soon as
it
>>>>>was disconnected, the CD ROM drive came back on line.
>>>>
>>>>>I've never had a drive fail in this way before, problems usually
being
>>>>>motor or bearing related. Anyone else had it ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Arfa
>>>>
>>>> If a drive has bad blocks, then Windows will appear to hang while it
>>>> repeatedly retries the affected reads or writes. If a drive doesn't
>>>> spin up, then the BIOS may appear to hang while it is waiting for it
>>>> to do so. Eventually it should time out and move on.
>>>>
>>>> I have two Fujitsu drives that have a faulty Cirrus Logic IC. This
>>>> model series featured in a law suit. The failure symptoms are
>>>> sometimes as you describe, while at other times I will get reams of
>>>> bad blocks which come good on the next try.
>>>>
>>>> - Franc Zabkar
>>>
>>> You try getting Fujitsu to replace them ! No way ! I will not under
>>> any cir***stances buy their drives... Not even if they gave them away
>>> !
>>
>> I had problems with a Dell Poweredge server and 1 of the 3 factory
>> installed Fujitsu drives 1 day after setting it up. They sent another
>> Fujitsu drive and that lasted a month. Dell sent yet another
replacement
>> and a few weeks later one of the original drives failed. I talked the
>> owner into buying 3 Seagate drives and I reinstalled the operating
>> system and restored data from the backup. The server is still in use
>> after 4 years.
>
> I've never had problems with Dell's services.
I never had any problems with them either but I wasn't going to play
the hard drive swap game forever and make myself look like a fool in
the eyes of the person I recommended Dell to. And they wouldn't send
anything but Fujitsu so rather than risk down time and lose sales the
server owner realized replacing the drives on our own was the better
option. The business was a country club with an 18 hole golf course
and this was in the start of their busiest part of the season. The system
powered all their point of sale touch screen terminals and also
controlled the golfing part taking reservations, scheduling tee times,
printing tee sheets, even the starters had terminals to confirm stuff. The
next Dell Poweredge I installed a few months later came with WD drives.
> Fujitsu will tell you to return the drive to the original vendor. Which
> is fine if the original vendor still exists. An awful lot of Fujitsu
> drives were sold by vendors that vanished within a few months. I know
> of one that traded under three different names from the same address.
> But none of those names were the one that he used to make purchases
> with, from the manufacturers !
I have a box full of various interface/size used drives none of witch are
Fujitsu.
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