I prefer smaller and multiple drives, an advantage of SCSI.

Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
> In , on 12/01/2005 
>    at 06:19 PM, Robert M Riddle  said:
>
> Robert
>
>   
>> Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello Scuzzy Hard Drivers
>>>
>>>      Well, I did it to myself, again.  Bought a used hard
>>> drive.  While it is working, it is vigorously convincing
>>> me to by another drive to replace it.
>>>
>>>      It is a Seagate / IBM 73GB SCSI drive.
>>>
>>> HBA ID LUN VENDOR   PRODUCT          REV  SYNC WIDE INI13 
CYL/ HD/SEC ---
>>> -- --- -------  ---------------- ---  ---- ---- ----- ------------
>>>  0  13  0  IBM-ESXS SW373405LW    !# B243 40.0  16   82h  1024/255/63
>>>
>>>      I have never experienced a drive behaving like this before. It acts
>>> as if it is being accessed every 10 seconds or so.  The LED flashes and
>>> EVERYTHING!!  It even makes that most ANNOYING grinding noise like the
>>> "TCPIP Startup" program does at bootup when it
needlessly grinds the
>>> floppy drives!!  Sheesh.
>>>
>>>      Any ideas or advise?
>>>       
>
>   
>> Well I am on my 3rd one under the 5 year warranty, no help but it does 
>> say something about this model.
>>     
>
>      While, I can't say that is comforting, I can say it is
> informative.
>
>      Since I started feeling better about my financial situation after I
> bought this drive, you are reinforcing my inclination to replace it with a
> 140GB drive.
>
>      Thanks
>
>   


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