From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nicola Fankhauser <nicola.fankhauser@variant.ch>
Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:54:16 +0100
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hi robin

nice to meet you here again - I've been subscribed to this list for 1.5 
hour today when your post made it into my inbox! :)

Robin Bowes wrote:
> I've had loads of problems with MaxLine II 250GB SATA drives and 
> wouldn't buy them again. 

I bought 9 (8+1 for RAID5) 6B300S0 300GB Maxtor DM10 a month ago and 
they seem to run fine - though I want to test them with powermax this 
week to see if there could be problems.

I'll need as well to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10 and patch it with the 
libata patch to make smartctl happy again (it won't work with SATA 
drives yet).

> But as long as they keep RMA'ing them I'm happy 
> to stick with them for now.

I'm afraid that the warranty period won't be extended by the replacement 
drive(s).

regards from snowy and cold switzerland
nicola