jensen%cs.uiowa.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (01/31/87)
Last summer, our lab installed two Fujitsu M2361 (Super Eagle) disk drives on our Vax 11/780 4.2bsd system. Two other departments installed a total of three of these same drives on MicroVax systems. Less than one year later, all but one of these 5 drives has become unusable with unrecoverable ECC errors. One of the drives has been replaced; the replacement drive has also failed. Our drives share an Emulex SC7002 controller-- one drive failed, the other is humming along. (ie I don't think it is a controller problem.) We have a lot of trouble believing that this is some strange, local phenomena... I am very interested in hearing what experiences others have had with this drive. Notice that I have not mentioned what well-known vendor we bought these drives from. I would be interested in that detail from others, however, and would be glad to discuss more specifics in one-to-one mail with others. Please send any responses direct to me. I will summarize for anyone who is interested. Thanks. -Nancy Jensen CSNET: jensen@cs.uiowa.edu