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To: Tony Viola who wrote (150456)	11/29/2001 9:18:03 PM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Tony, re: "I think i know a little about reliability, failure modes, etc. myself." Any thoughts on how to evaluate a possibly bad HDD or should I just take the route of seeking a replacement from Fujitsu? Removing the drive from the system has resulted in stable operations under 100% CPU load for 15+ hours. After prior crashes (which took 3-4 hours of operation to precipitate), the system was unable to find the HDD during startup so this seems to be the clear source of the problem. I do plan to try the system with the suspect drive as a secondary drive to see if the drive will disappear after a couple of hours or cause a system crash. -PT