[ale] OT: HW failure

[Calvin Harrigan]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11:28 am, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Geoffrey wrote:
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> I had four drives die within a year (one after another), in one machine. I
> didn't worry about guarentees as I was dependent on that machine. Life got
> much better (and less expensive!) when I changed the controller along with
> the drive.
>
> I'm not an engineer, but I suspect that squirrelly hardware on the other
> end of the ribbon cable can encourage a hard drive to self-destruct. I
> have to wonder if such a mechanism doesn't explain some of the horror
> stories concerning multiple serial drive failures?

I thought about that, but the half-dozen WD's were replaced finally with an 
IBM.  The drive and motherboard is working together to this day!!!  At least 
4 years together happily.  Slightly incompatible perhaps?

Calvin...