Weird G3 Happenings.

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 16699
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texte = >We have a stock G3 pizza box server and have not seen this behavior. We>have had 2 hard disk failures with this G3 (on OS8), though. One theory>about that is that because we run in webcat debug mode and log all webstar>activity, there is too much disk writing going on and they fry. Does anyone>know if FWB's disk driver is more robust than Apple's in situations where>there is lots and lots of disk writing happening and if so are you using it>w/OS8?Were the HD's that failed the builtin EIDE drives, or are you runningexternal scsi drives? If you are not running external scsi drives, you maywant to try them. I have a client with a couple G3 boxes from Apple andexcept for booting and doing timed backups of the data from the scsi drivesto the internal drive (to at least use all of that space that came with thesystem). But have yet to have a drive fail on these systems but I don'tthink I would trust a heavy hit server with EIDE drives apple provides.Just my thoughts.-- Nevin Lyne - Owner - BeSites Internet Solutions ---- Visit Us At http://www.besites.com/ ---- Web Hosting - LAN/WAN Consulting - Server Co-Location ---- MacOS Internet/Intranet Server Consulting & Service ---- Meeting Today's Needs and Tomorrow's Demands -- Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Weird G3 Happenings. (N. Lyne 1998)

>We have a stock G3 pizza box server and have not seen this behavior. We>have had 2 hard disk failures with this G3 (on OS8), though. One theory>about that is that because we run in webcat debug mode and log all webstar>activity, there is too much disk writing going on and they fry. Does anyone>know if FWB's disk driver is more robust than Apple's in situations where>there is lots and lots of disk writing happening and if so are you using it>w/OS8?Were the HD's that failed the builtin EIDE drives, or are you runningexternal scsi drives? If you are not running external scsi drives, you maywant to try them. I have a client with a couple G3 boxes from Apple andexcept for booting and doing timed backups of the data from the scsi drivesto the internal drive (to at least use all of that space that came with thesystem). But have yet to have a drive fail on these systems but I don'tthink I would trust a heavy hit server with EIDE drives apple provides.Just my thoughts.-- Nevin Lyne - Owner - BeSites Internet Solutions ---- Visit Us At http://www.besites.com/ ---- Web Hosting - LAN/WAN Consulting - Server Co-Location ---- MacOS Internet/Intranet Server Consulting & Service ---- Meeting Today's Needs and Tomorrow's Demands -- N. Lyne

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