At 5:38 PM -0800 11/2/00, Leonard Chung wrote:
>I heard the problem may be due to having a Quantum drive in the 
>chain. However, I used to have a Conner 40MB drive previously 
>running 1.4 about 2 years ago. I recall it would core then also, but 
>the problem was nowhere as severe. Do you think regressing back to 
>the Quantum would fix things a bit? Or could the added instability 
>be due to changes since then in 1.4.2?

Quantum's probably get blamed just because there are more Quantum's 
out there to get blamed.  There have been problems seen with all 
brands.  That said changing drives may change the problem even if 
it's just a different manufacture date of the same model.  It's been 
known to happen.

Personally I've had outstanding luck with Quantum drives using the ncr driver.


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