Bad Hard Drive

[Andrej Marjan]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>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.
>  
>

I've lost a number of fireballs personally. None of mine (in various 
computers, in various physical environments) has lasted over 5 years. My 
last one (in my firewall) is also the newest, and it's also making scary 
noises. I give it 6 months, tops. :)

That reminds me, the firewall in question can only take up to 37GB hard 
drives, but nobody seems to carry them anymore. Is there anywhere I 
could get a replacement drive for the (abovementioned, soon to fail) 
drive? Or am I looking at getting an add-in PCI ATA controller that 
supports 40GB+ hard drives?

The latter option isn't thrilling, since these ATA controllers all seem 
to be made by Promise, cost $30+, and boldly proclaim support of 
dubious, proprietary software RAID schemes.
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