On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:45:58PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas -Balu- Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 
>     Thomas> + Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05.02.02 13:07]:
>     >> Unfortunately, my big IBM disk which held my homdirectory and
>     >> FTP site (_INCLUDING_ all my Debian/LDAP/QMail stuff) broke
>     >> down. I've found out that this is a known IBM problem! To bad
>     >> no one cared to tell me about this... And even worse, no
>     >> backups... :(
>     Thomas> Just curious - what IBM harddisk are you speaking of? What
>     Thomas> kind of known bug is it?
> From what I've been told, basically _ALL_ IBM disks (IDE and SCSI)
> have hardware problems (about one year ago).

No, there is one well known bad series of IDE disks of the DTLA-3070xx range
which were not manufactured by IBM itself as usual, easily
detectable.�Normally there is a "Manufactured by IBM Storage ..." on the
label, on this series it reads "Manufactured for IBM Storage ...".

> My is/was a DDYS-T36950.

Hmm, never heard of problems with the DDYS-Series. Have not a single disk of
this series, though.

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