sparcstation disk drives

[Tibor S Mikes]

In article <5366 at brazos.Rice.edu>, oscarmir at athena.ee.msstate.edu (Doug Meyer) writes:
> Ya know those nice little 110MB 3.5" hard drives in the Sun SPARCstations?
> 
> [stuff deleted] 
> 
> Has anybody else seen an unusual mortality rate for SPARCstation 1 hard
> disks?  Or was this just a lucky fluke?

Doug:

I recently ran into similar problems with three brand new SPARC1's at a
client' site.  The drives have barely been used and the client had to send
the machines back to their VAR for replacements.  I know that these
machines were babied and there was no chance of damage by the customer,
suggesting perhaps that the drives themselves are prone to damage.  The
one common factor in all of the machines is that the VAR had opened the
machines and possibly could have cause some electrostatic shock damage
which doesn't always manifest itself right away. [By the way,
electrostatic shock damage can be caused by anyone coming into contact
with the machine, and the machine doesn't even have to be opened for it to
be affected - the spark (no pun intended) can go right thru the CRT
directly into the CPU over the connecting cables.]

Steve
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