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- From: fsgreen@.lerc.nasa.gov (Doug Greenwald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Quantum Prodrive 210S Failures
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.193311.7228@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 19:33:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: eagle.1992Sep1.193311.7228
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- Organization: Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion
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- Howdy,
-
- Sorry if this is a repost - I didn't see it come through from last week.
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- I am trying to determine if what we have experienced is an isolated incident
- or if we should be worried.
-
- We have purchased a total of 15 Quantum Prodrive 210s drives from Sun in Sun's
- "Desktop Storage Packs". So far, within 2 years, 3 of them have died. The
- platters spin up, but the heads "seek" back and forth across the drive,
- clunking as they hit their internal stops (not the case I've torn one down
- and checked).
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- We called Sun and told them that we are up to a 20 percent failure rate and
- asked if they had any record of a bad lot of these drives. After much run-
- around, I was told no, no record of high failure rates, no engineering
- change orders issued. I was told that if we were to put our ELC's under
- hardware maintainence, maybe they could fix the ones that have died. No one
- I talked to at our local Sun office thought a 20 percent failure rate was of
- undue concern.
-
- Right after I talked to Sun, a friend and administrator told me that he had
- just lost a Quantum Prodrive 210s with the same symptoms. I don't know the
- age of his drive.
-
- Having no luck with Sun, I tried to dig up a number for Quantum. I got a
- long-distance number which I called. It got me a touch-tone switching
- system with a couple of choices, none of which were technical support. It
- referenced a 900 number if the choices offered weren't applicable to the
- question.
-
- My questions for the net:
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- Has anyone else had any problems with the Quantum Prodrive 210s?
-
- For anyone who had problems with the drives, how did you resolve it (other
- than hardware maintainence)?
-
- Does anyone else find it annoying and insulting that Quantum makes it very
- difficult to get information other than formatting and ordering directly
- from them?
-
- Please email replies and I will summarize if asked.
-
- Doug Greenwald
- ICOMP - System Administrator
- NASA Lewis / Case Western Reserve University
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- Doug Greenwald fsgreen@icomp01.lerc.nasa.gov
- Sun System Administrator (216) 433 5965
- ICOMP, NASA Lewis Research Center
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