From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 26 13:17:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12879 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-175.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.175]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA12833; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA16897; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:05:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608261505.RAA16897@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), julian@whistle.com, nirva@ishiboo.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:23:57 PDT." <199608240023.RAA15876@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:05:54 +0200 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Reference: > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" > > > > > I seriously doubt that -current is killing your hard drives. > > > > Some things you just can't do from software, even if you wanted > > > > to. > > > > > > That's not true. & then there was my ex colleague in London, who decided `acceptance test' included getting all the _big_ drives in a row of racks to head seek the same way, at the same time, & then tuning to resonant frequency of the row of racks ... ! Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/