From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 22:19:10 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 D5F5E15172 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:18:43 -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 OAA21980; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:46:15 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA45406; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:46:14 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990420144614.W40482@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:46:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Seal Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive spindown References: <19990420114701.F40482@lemis.com> 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 11:10:10PM -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 23:10:10 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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. > > I'm not sure if it matters, but this is a removeable drive (like a > Iomega Jaz) Yes, of course, that changes everything. But Jaz drives aren't what we normally understand by "hard drive". It looks as if I should have paid more attention to the reference to ORB and asked what it meant. It's a new TLA to me. 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