On 9/18/2006 at 6:19 PM Scott Quinn wrote:
End of story- I now have an OT Sun Ultra 10 440MHz
with Solaris 10 on it-
Solaris is much happier on SPARCs than PCs.
Western Digital IDE drives from the late '90s to early 2000s seem to be
going
bad at shocking rates now, also. Beware.
Funny you should mention that--last week I replaced a 9GB late 90's one on
a servers. Fortunately, I had the SMART monitoring enabled on Linux and it
diagnosed the "Drive is in imminent danger of failing" condition. Whole
tracks were going sour. Replaced it with a 9GB Quantum of approximately
the same age. Maybe I'll get another couple of years out of it.
Cheers,
Chuck