In article <200101172115.OAA03055@lager.beer.org>,
Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
>Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>  wrote:
> > Herb, do you think you might have a case of a gasping drive?  Just a
> > thought; trying to think of everything that might cause it to fail...
>
>Anything is possible.  I know these are 2 brand new IBM 45G disks that I
>bought 2 weeks ago.  I haven't seen any errors come up in dmesg.
>
>	wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DTLA-307045>
>	wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <IBM-DTLA-307045>
>
>As I mentioned a bit ago, Lukem was experiencing some 'problems' on a
>machine he recently built and determined the problems to be a weak
>powersupply.  I don't know about power-supply brands.  This is a 
>generic 300W from a local computer-pusher.

I had the same type of lossage with 2 quantums 40GB... Switched to SCSI
and I am a happy camper... I've had the same lossage when I switched them
to an NT box, so now they are sitting on a shelf.

christos