From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 19:19:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EF314E6A for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:19:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA21064; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:47:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA45055; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:47:01 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990420114701.F40482@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:47:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Seal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive spindown References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Patrick Seal on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 06:01:34PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 18:01:34 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: > On a recent slashdot discussion on the new ORB drives: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/19/2021246 > - > I got the EIDE version a little over a month ago. It installs into a linux > machine flawlessly. The only problem that I had was couple weeks after I got the > drive I heard a grinding noise. Turned out that linux never spun the drive > down even once in that first 2 weeks and I never used it, so it ended up > grinding off the cylinders off the far edge of the platter. This is an assumption on your part. Modern drives are designed for continuous operation. The lack of spindown was not the cause of the failure. Also, since disk heads float over the surface, they would never "grind off the cylinders" unless they landed, which would normally be caused by dust in the HDA. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message