Did you have right termination in your scsi chain?
Just a question...
Marius
"Steve Lenaghan" <***@mts.net> schreef in bericht news:QnZrd.224$***@news1.mts.net...
Ahh the overheated Fujitsu. The drives we had failed from, it appeared, the head position control chip, very discolored. . I have one on the shelf that we 'borrowed' the board to determine if the drive contents were there. It worked so we stripped the drive and sent the loaner back. Curious thing. I had a 20 gb Fujitsu die and I tried the 'defective' control board from the 40 gb (same board number) and the 20 came back up ok, but it won't run the 40 gb, Gotta love technology... THE remaining 40 gb drive has a drive cooler, the type that mount underneath and blow on the board. Our machines run 24-7 being a small call center. Now my Netware server has six Conner and IBM scsi's and blow a lot of hot air and has only had one intermittent drive in 4 years its been up.
We record all our phone calls and that adds up to a lot of space and now that we have to log two taxi companies and an order line it will get worse. The DVD is mainly to archive those calls. One CDROM will not quite take one phone's calls for a month. It will be written, verified and then into the safe. I somehow have the feeling the dual layer will be used to copy the new HiDef DVDs that I hear are coming. It's a moot point since it seems there seems to be no media available for it yet. I figure spending the $100 US for the new drive and then waiting out the market to get a reliable media while I use a regular DVD for archiving. Even a regular DVD is a quantum leap from a CDROM. Personally I'd love to have a pair of huge mirrored drives and leave all the calls on the server for at least a year
Our corporate accounting and correspondence wont even fill a zip drive. Our Call Center program is dos based and after 12 years is still under 50 Megs of files, not bad since that includes two towing companies doing 6000 calls per year.
Rick wrote:
Steve Lenaghan wrote:
Rick wrote:
It might be time to give it up on Jaz since it's been discontinued
for
so long. Buying a used drive from EBay could be nothing but a risk
and a
pain if it doesn't work. If you really need random read/write
capacity
on removeable media in the 2Gig+ range per disk you might want to
look
at magneto optical drives instead. They're still in production. And
you'll save a ton of money on the media. In the US you can take a
look a
Fujitsu drives at http:\\www.fcpa.com to get an idea of features,
costs,
specs etc.
Rick
My experience with excessive Fujitsu drive failure in my Answering
Service business machines has made me swear off anything by that name.
Their hard drives or the optical drives? Just curious. I have had MO
drives fail after about 4 years or more of *heavy* daily use. (They tend
to run hot when writing and I've since installed extra cooling fans for
the drives.) Even so, the thing I like about them is that if a drive
fails is simply stops writing. It doesn't kill the contents of the disk
in the process, which Zip and Jaz drives have great potential to do when
they fail. I gave up on Zip after Iomega replaced both drives and disks
a total of *six* times. Their final thoughts on the matter were "Since
we can't tell which disk(s) keeps taking out the drive you will have to
send them all back for replacement."
The prime use is archiving and dual layer DVD seems affordable except
nobody seems to have media on the market yet.
Thing that scares me about DVD is the higher data density, dual
layering, and subsequent potential to easily damage the disks. A scratch
on a CD might be one thing to recover from. But a scratch on a dual
layer DVD? Just a thought. IIRC MO disk "shelf life" for data storage is
rated at over 30 years. And in the industry that's considered to be a
very conservative estimate.
Rick
Rick