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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!tencats.tiac.net!rmk From: rmk@tiac.net (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components Date: 20 Feb 1995 02:17:46 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3i8u4a$1cg@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <D3Mz2E.Cqr@txnews.amd.com> <D3nryK.2u0@bonkers.taronga.com> <D3up05.K3t@pluto.rain.com> <3i16p4$a2q@mercury.interpath.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tencats.tiac.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tom Wilson (ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net) wrote: : In article <D3up05.K3t@pluto.rain.com>, : Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote: : :Newsgroups trimmed and followups set. : : : :In article <D3nryK.2u0@bonkers.taronga.com> : :peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: : :> Doug Puchalski <drp@dvorak.amd.com> wrote: : :> >So what about Quantum drives? They also have a 5yr warranty. : :> I like Quantums ... they and Maxtor have always been solid and trouble-free. : : : :I take it you have not been bitten by the infamous sticktion problem : :with the Quantum ProDrive 105S. Cost Sun and Sun owners a bundle a : :few years back. : That was reportedly caused by a bad batch of lubricant...I have yet to : hear of another serious problem with *any other* Quantum line... : I ones I own and have owned work/worked great...no complaints about : the ones in the HP workstation I use, either. The fix for the Quantum problem was a ROM upgrade that caused the servo to yank harder on the heads at powerup. Worked fine... Seagate had the same problem (same lubricant). The Seagate fix was to drop the drive three inchs onto a table top. I'll stick with Quantum. -- Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.tiac.net rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@progress.com