Re: ST15150N SCSI HD trouble

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Aaron wrote:

> The ST15150N is a quite old, full height 4G drive.  I used to run these in
> servers years ago.  They are noisy and run particularly hot.  It is quite
> possible you have a bad drive.  I'd test it in an Intel machine to make sure
> the drive itself is good.

They're not full-height, they're just not low-profile, like most modern
SCSI drives are.  They are half-height drives.  You may be thinking of the
old Hawk series, which was full-height and quite slow (3600 RPM).

I've got a ST15150N on my desk right now that I just "retired" to lighter
duty.  It ran in my SX off of a Tekram 390F for years and never showed a
problem (actually, both did...I have two of them, which I recently
replaced with three 9GB Barracudas).  I also have an old 2GB Hawk sitting
here, which, despite a VERY slow spin-up, works well to this day.

C