rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) (12/18/90)
Does anyone have a sugestion as to where to get a disk drive repaired. The drive is a Micropolis 1558-15 (382 meg) ESDI drive. I've called several places that have prices ranging from $225 to $750 and repair times ranging from 5 to 30 days. My main interest is getting the drive repaired fast versus trying to save money (although I'm not opposed to saving money :-) Any opinions or experiences, good or bad on various companies would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Rick Odeen ...!rutgers!umn-cs!buddha!rodeen Nutrition Coordinating Center rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu University of Minnesota AT&T: +1 612 627 4884
dbielik@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Danny Bielik) (12/18/90)
In article <1618@buddha.ncc.umn.edu> rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) writes: >Does anyone have a sugestion as to where to get a disk drive repaired. >The drive is a Micropolis 1558-15 (382 meg) ESDI drive. I've called several >places that have prices ranging from $225 to $750 and repair times ranging >from 5 to 30 days. My main interest is getting the drive repaired fast >versus trying to save money (although I'm not opposed to saving money :-) Hope you kept backups. A good idea in future is to set up a mirror drive on the file server. This keeps an exact duplicate of the other drive, and if one goes bust, the other just kicks in and takes over. You can then take the server down at night, remove the faulty drive, and the server still works until you have the drive repaired. A good idea to have the mirror drive from another batch of drives, in case there is a problem in all the drives in a batch, you may have both drives go down in a day or so of each other. ******************************************************************************* * Danny Bielik J U S T * * dbielik@mqccsuna.mqcs.mq.oz.au S A Y * * Macquarie University - Sydney Australia N O ! ! * * Phone (W) +61-2-212-6699 Fax +61-2-281-7394 * *******************************************************************************
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) (12/22/90)
> In article <1618@buddha.ncc.umn.edu> rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) writes: >>Does anyone have a sugestion as to where to get a disk drive repaired. >>The drive is a Micropolis 1558-15 (382 meg) ESDI drive. I've called several >>places that have prices ranging from $225 to $750 and repair times ranging >>from 5 to 30 days. My main interest is getting the drive repaired fast >>versus trying to save money (although I'm not opposed to saving money :-) > Buy the current issue of Computer Shopper. You will find 6 or 20 advertisers who want to help you. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com