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EnduroRacer · 04-19-2007, 06:54 AM

I called SNAP tech support but they wanted $120 just to talk to me. That to me is ridiculous since the damn thing isn't even 2 yrs old! I figure they're just going to tell me the drive is bad anyway.

I yanked the drive out of the SNAP and yup it was a %$&%$# Maxtor drive. I personally blacklisted Maxtor drives way back in 1994 when I had my first experience with them.

I had an old old old version of SpinRite but I went ahead and bought the latest version of it. I popped the drive in an unused PC and started SpinRite on it in recovery mode. It got up to 18% rather quickly but then it started hitting bad sectors. It took the rest of the day to get through the next GB. I left it running all night but I doubt it will be successful.

Yesterday was pretty chaotic. I have an AS/400, Solaris, AIX, RedHat, several macs, and numerous PCs all configured to mount the SNAP. Had to configure them to go elsewhere temporarily and transfer files for people since I didn't have time to show them what to do.

I'm debating whether to just toss the SNAP and configure one of my Linux boxes in its place. It should be more reliable but all of our other sites use SNAPs the same way we do and it would probably be better to conform. I really don't want to go through this again though! I guess I'll probably end up picking up a good drive today and setting it back up.

04-19-2007, 06:54 AM	#5
EnduroRacer Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lansdale Posts: 3	Re: SNAP 1100 Never Finishes fsck I called SNAP tech support but they wanted $120 just to talk to me. That to me is ridiculous since the damn thing isn't even 2 yrs old! I figure they're just going to tell me the drive is bad anyway. I yanked the drive out of the SNAP and yup it was a %$&%$# Maxtor drive. I personally blacklisted Maxtor drives way back in 1994 when I had my first experience with them. I had an old old old version of SpinRite but I went ahead and bought the latest version of it. I popped the drive in an unused PC and started SpinRite on it in recovery mode. It got up to 18% rather quickly but then it started hitting bad sectors. It took the rest of the day to get through the next GB. I left it running all night but I doubt it will be successful. Yesterday was pretty chaotic. I have an AS/400, Solaris, AIX, RedHat, several macs, and numerous PCs all configured to mount the SNAP. Had to configure them to go elsewhere temporarily and transfer files for people since I didn't have time to show them what to do. I'm debating whether to just toss the SNAP and configure one of my Linux boxes in its place. It should be more reliable but all of our other sites use SNAPs the same way we do and it would probably be better to conform. I really don't want to go through this again though! I guess I'll probably end up picking up a good drive today and setting it back up.