Subject: Re: badsect on NetBSD 1.0
To: None <downsj@teeny.org, tmm@mcci.com>
From: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/25/1996 18:32:00
>From: Jason Downs <downsj@teeny.org>
>
>I wish I were so lucky.  Damned batch of Seagate 9gig drives that won't remap
>bad sectors correctly, and when you return a drive Seagate just sends you
>another RMA'd drive that they've supposedly 'fixed'.  Most likely, when you
>copy your news spool over to the replacement drive, it will immediately
>explode.  Or, it'll wait until you get about 4gigs on it.
>
>I swear, Seagate SCSI drives suck.  And I only use their IDE drives in RTs.
>Strictly DEC and HP drives from now on.

Sigh.  You would have to tell me this _after_ I got my Seagate ST51080N.  :-/
Hopefully it does not suffer from its bigger relative's weakness.

BTW, in case some haven't heard, Seagate recently consumed Conner (which had
previously consumed Archive).

Max