[gentoo-dev] Another defective hard drive

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

Hi All,

Guess what?  Another defective hard drive -- a bad block.  This time, it was a
new (Jul 2000) IBM 30 gigger.  We're now running on an IBM 15 Gb drive and
hoping that it will survive the next week :/  No data was lost.  We seem to
be losing 15Gb every two weeks... hopefully, IBM will replace these drives
in time.

I'm trying to find some reason for the multiple drive failures in such a 
short period of time.  The only thing I can find is that both defective
drives were manufactured at IBM's Hungary plant in ~Jul 2000.  I'm guessing
there's a batch of bad hard drives coming from there, maybe due to a batch
of bad parts or low quality control at this particular plant?  Anyways, I
have a 45Gb drive (matching the one that failed a week or two ago, also made
in Hungary at about the same time) and we'll see if *it* lasts.

Remember: system failures always happen on Sundays

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.