sid@linus.UUCP (Sid Stuart) (01/30/85)
Subject: Maintenance tip for Suns Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards I just ran across a hardware problem on my new Sun 2/120's. It is actually a problem with the 130 megabyte disk drives that are sold with the Suns. It looks like the four screws that attach the disk to the mounting bracket work themselve loose. When one or more screws come loose, the mounting bracket can break from fatigue. When all the screws come loose or the mounting bracket breaks, your disk drive falls. This can impair its function. We recieved two drives in December and both of them have screws that are out and broken brackets. I would suggest that if you have the 130 meg drive for a 120, you might want to have someone open up the enclosure and check it. Do not, do not ship it in for repair without checking this, at least to the Lexington facility, as they will claim any resulting damage is your fault. (Hmmm, "Could this guy have an axe to grind?", you ask yourself.) Another interesting tidbit about Suns has to do with the RS-232 ports. I got two Sun 170's in last summer and the ports did not work. After talking to a friend, I found out that Suns can come from the factory with the ribbon cable for the ports plugged into the wrong place on the processor board. My ports worked when I moved the cable from the bottem port on the board to the top port. Good luck on yours. Who needs to worry about quality control? sid at linus