> Remember 20 years ago was the era of the infamous IBM Deathstar drives where the magnetic coating would literally start sprinkling off the platters.
I have even older memories of problematic IBM drives. During the early 90s the shop I briefly worked with, found a supplier for IBM SCSI drives at a very convenient price, so they ordered a good lot of them. They worked great on PCs, but some of us also had Amiga machines and of course would love to benefit from the offer. So we tried one, but it didn't work; then another, and another; nothing, they were normal SCSI drives but refused to work on any Amiga with a SCSI controller, although any other drive would work in there. In the end we abandoned all hopes and took the drives for a reformat to be used on PCs, but... they were all dead. Completely, not even detectable by any controller; the mere connection to an Amiga SCSI controller destroyed them instantly. We never discovered where the problem was; those drives worked perfectly on all PCs, while we could install any other drive on every Amiga and expect it to work, but no way to put those in an Amiga and expect it to survive. Good old times indeed:)
I have even older memories of problematic IBM drives. During the early 90s the shop I briefly worked with, found a supplier for IBM SCSI drives at a very convenient price, so they ordered a good lot of them. They worked great on PCs, but some of us also had Amiga machines and of course would love to benefit from the offer. So we tried one, but it didn't work; then another, and another; nothing, they were normal SCSI drives but refused to work on any Amiga with a SCSI controller, although any other drive would work in there. In the end we abandoned all hopes and took the drives for a reformat to be used on PCs, but... they were all dead. Completely, not even detectable by any controller; the mere connection to an Amiga SCSI controller destroyed them instantly. We never discovered where the problem was; those drives worked perfectly on all PCs, while we could install any other drive on every Amiga and expect it to work, but no way to put those in an Amiga and expect it to survive. Good old times indeed:)