On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 02:09, James wrote: > I've generally had good luck with Fujitsu's but did run into an > interesting problem with a 6 gig version of it. We bought a lot of 100 > of the drives with a previous company I was with. In the production > line the drives had installed on them a whopping 75 megs of FreeBSD and > our software. Normally a drive to drive clone took on the order of 30 > minutes (multiple drives on the receive end would slow it down somewhat) > What we did run into was 2 cases of drives (12 to a case) that were the > slowest clones I'd ever seen 16 hours to write 75 megs (limited > production test in our shop run once a problem had been found on the > line.) and format the drives. Once they were finished.... they ran > just fine. As long as you never had to write to them again. A 100k > copy from cd to HDD could take 25 to 30 minutes. Fujitsu sent out a rep > to look at the problem we had and left us two cases of 10 gig drives for > our trouble. (The gesture was appreciated but 6 gigs was already > overkill.) Never did find out why but it seemed to be a bad lot. > > James
You probably won't believe this, but I had a very similar experience with those fujitsu laptop drives. Reading off a drive image was no problem; but writing it back took an entire night, using dd. Otherwise they functioned normally, with no wierdisms. Anyway, I got the job done and passed the anomaly off as something I'd never get the answer to. LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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