Bad Hard Drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0500, Peter Hiscocks wrote:
> The hard drive on my wife's Windows machine recently blew up (literally).
> There is now an integrated circuit on the controller board with a small
> crater and evidence of flame damage in one corner.
> 
> When I got the machine repaired at OTA, the service tech said something
> about this type of drive being prone to such behaviour and that they had
> replaced a number of them, so you if you have one you might want to be
> proactive about replacing it. This is what it says on the cover:
> 
> Quantum Fireball lct N143, 10 3.5".
> 10.2AT P/N LB10A011 Rev 01-A.

I guess it lived up to it's name.

> Dunno the size, probably 10.2 gigs I would guess from the part number.

Probably.  I have an 18G fireball that has been running 24/7 in a 486
firewall for many years now (at least 5 years) and no problem yet.  I
have had pretty good luck with Quantum in general (never did touch the
bigfoot drives of course) but can't get them anymore.

Lennart Sorensen
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