HD quality (was: Maxtor drive goes under)

-----------Original message--------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:06:29 -0800 (PDT) From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Maxtor drive goes under Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote: I'm going to guess Micropolis. Those drives were absolutely crap. -brian. --------------------------------------------- And then there was JTS... 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