Re: [TCLUG:12912] SCSI advice

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> Yeah, quantum's are junk.  When I buy drives for the office, it's always
> IBM for IDE, and Seisuregate^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSeagate for SCSI.

LOL! Better than 'Smackgate'.

> The seagates are nice.  On two occasions they've made really nasty
> grinding noises about 48 hours before they died...like a forewarning. 

Yep, although mine has been grinding and whining for about 4 days now. :)
Every time I do an 'ls' in a dir in the filesystem on that drive, the
sounds start up again. 


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