[ale] QuantumFireball disk woes

[Jeff Hubbs]

Quantum gave us the remarkable Bigfoot drives - remarkably slow.  5-1/4"
wide, 8" long, 2.1GB, one platter, two heads.  It was billed as being "great
for all your multimedia needs."  Laptop drives are faster.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn C. Lasher Jr. [mailto:glasher at nycap.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: Pete Hardie
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] QuantumFireball disk woes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I tend to shy away from Quantum.  They were pretty good in 
> the 40MB days,
> but I haven't heard anything good about them since the 1GB 
> days or so....
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Pete Hardie wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I decided to make the jump to RH 7.1 about 3 weeks ago, so 
> I orderd from
> > CheapBytes
> > and also decided to get a bigger disk.  I settled on a 
> low-end Quantum Fireball
> > 20G
> > disk.  When I try to run anything formatting-ish on it, it 
> seems to get stuck
> > somewhere
> > about 10G in.  Running badblocks will truck along just fine 
> until then, and
> > suddenly
> > slows down to a crawl (1 block processed every 60-90 
> seconds).  I'm thinking
> > about returning the disk, but wanted to check with the 
> community to see if there
> > is
> > something I'm missing that might be a quick fix.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> 
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