eric@osiris.UUCP (Eric Bergan) (09/09/86)
We have been having some strange problems with our Eagle disk drives, and would like to see if others have experienced the same thing. Basically, we will do a read/verify of the whole disk, and it will check clean. We then do it a day later, and there are one or two bad spots. We spare those out, so that the read/verify is clean, but then the next day NEW errors show up. This is happening on more than one drive, more than one controller, and in fact, more than one machine. Is gradual degradation normal for Eagles? We thought they basically ran without difficulties, until they failed completely. On at least one of the drives, we will shortly run out of tracks to use to spare out bad tracks. How many bad tracks per disk is "normal"? How sensitive are Eagles to power fluctuations? We are interested in hearing whatever experiences others have had. Please reply by mail, and I will summarize to the network. Thanks. -- eric ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!osiris!eric