In 2005 Mohawk Software purchased a number of Samsung hard drives from a local vendor. They seemed like a good deal and seemed fast.

Well, reliable is one thing that they are not. Of 5 hard disks purchased, two are dead and 2 are having I/O errors.

We are currently in the process of replacing all the Samsung hard disks. The cost of the drive is almost nothing when compared to the time and effort required to replace them.

Anyone looking to buy new hard disks should avoid Samsung completely. The Western Digital and Maxtor hard disks that were not replaced in 2005 are still functioning p

The Mohawk Software CVS server will be unavailable for a short period of time. While there has been no data loss, it has caused a "re-think" of the service hardware strategy.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Currently we have no facilities to compile/test on 64 bit operating systems. We have gotten reports that Phoenix has isses with 64 bit. That means MCache, XMLDBX, and all the other code depending on it, will probably have issues.

Also needed for development and test:
7~8 SCSI disks for our RAID system.
A decent Mac system to maintain the Mac version
A decent solaris machine so that we can, once again, support Solaris.

Anyone willing to donate should contact markw (at) mohawksoft (dot) com.

An XMLDBX parser has been added for PostgreSQL. You can now save your sessions or data objects in PHP using the PHP XMLDBX serializer and query against them in PostgreSQL.

The XMLDBX extension for PostgreSQL is avaialble via CVS Access.