oscarmir@athena.ee.msstate.edu (Doug Meyer) (03/01/90)
Ya know those nice little 110MB 3.5" hard drives in the Sun SPARCstations? Well, they're not getting any younger around here (well, neither am I). We've got a bunch of SPARCstations over here, and the little 3.5" beasts have been dropping like... hmmm.... nevermind. Nonetheless, we've had three disks in trouble, and it's gotten my curiosity up. Has anybody else seen an unusual mortality rate for SPARCstation 1 hard disks? Or was this just a lucky fluke? Douglas Brent Meyer Research Associate - MADEM Project Engineering Research Center for Complex Field Simulation Mississippi State University Drawer EE Mississippi State, MS 39762 E-Mail Address:oscarmir@ee.msstate.edu
smikes@cbnewsi.att.com (Tibor S Mikes) (03/03/90)
In article <5366@brazos.Rice.edu>, oscarmir@athena.ee.msstate.edu (Doug Meyer) writes: > Ya know those nice little 110MB 3.5" hard drives in the Sun SPARCstations? > > [stuff deleted] > > Has anybody else seen an unusual mortality rate for SPARCstation 1 hard > disks? Or was this just a lucky fluke? Doug: I recently ran into similar problems with three brand new SPARC1's at a client' site. The drives have barely been used and the client had to send the machines back to their VAR for replacements. I know that these machines were babied and there was no chance of damage by the customer, suggesting perhaps that the drives themselves are prone to damage. The one common factor in all of the machines is that the VAR had opened the machines and possibly could have cause some electrostatic shock damage which doesn't always manifest itself right away. [By the way, electrostatic shock damage can be caused by anyone coming into contact with the machine, and the machine doesn't even have to be opened for it to be affected - the spark (no pun intended) can go right thru the CRT directly into the CPU over the connecting cables.] Steve e-mail: {att!}pjspot!smikes -> Phone: (201) 615-4718