CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) (04/30/89)
So are we to assume that the problem with Seagates and the autoparking is SPECIFICALLY to do with repeated power on power off cycles??? I've had experience with a number of seagates that are run continuously and none of them have experienced any form of spindle locking or any other glitches. (this includes a ST157N being used as a swap drive on a Sun 3/50 (well it seemed like a good idea at the time.. (ended up being only useful due to the fact that we ended up with 35 meg of swap and the thing basically pulled the 3/50 right off ethernet once it was up and running with whatever application we used..))) anyways that 157N has been running for nearly 8 months without a barf or a problem, and its NEVER been turned off. (and you can imagine the load that that thing gets as a swap drive) My drive at home (also a ST157N) gets run continuously and is never turned off, and its worked fine for 3 months... Should I assume that after 9 months, i should NEVER turn my drive off??? :-) any info would be desired... and I'm still looking for performance info on various controller/system configurations with ST157N's (let me know all the formatting details, the controller etc. etc. etc. (esp interleave) JpC -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan P. Crone CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET cronejp@mcl.UUCP If Einstein could have used a computer, he would have used an Amiga...