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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!okjunc.junction.net!michael From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Server hardware considerations.. Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:22:16 -0800 Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting Lines: 25 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960220101919.29221C-100000@okjunc.junction.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: okjunc.junction.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: michael@okjunc.junction.net In-Reply-To: <199602201409.HAA16763@alumni.cs.colorado.edu> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Alan T Krantz wrote: > In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960219211127.18343B-100000@okjunc.junction.net> you wrote: > : On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Stephen Fisher wrote: > > > : > Disk: SCSI 1.08GIG Conner (it's in my Linux server right now). > > : Stay away from Conner hard drives. I've heard of many problems with them > : on SCO, Linux and Netware. > > What sort of problems with conner drives have you heard of ? I had a SCO customer whose machine was crashing wierdly even though every hard drive diagnostic showed the drive to be OK. But when we swapped in a different brand it worked fine. An ISP running Linux who had lockups and news spool corruption every 3 to 5 days or so. On one of the Linux groups there was a discussion that showed several other people had problems with Conners including one guy with a Netware server. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com