Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:53:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HD failure; possible causes?? Message-ID: <199709200553.WAA11851@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <19970919230016.40089@vinyl.quickweb.com> from Mark Mayo at "Sep 19, 97 11:00:16 pm"
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> Hi all. Well, this weekend I had a couple of CCD disk arrays go belly up, > and I'm curious if anyone has had any experience with multiple disks > crashing at once. > > Originally I thought one of the disks in the pair had crashed, but when I > sent the drives to a data recovery place the guy informed me that both > disks were pooched - both of them had the heads physically touch the > media, destroying the platters and all data of course. Your expert sounds like he is full of B.S. when he says to look at your motherboard as a possible cause. Plain and simple fact that an electronic device can not cause a physical failure of a disk drive. Vibration, shock, or another physical thing happened here if 2 drives in the same chassis died at the same time with the same ``heads hit the platter'' failure mode, no doubt about it in my mind at all. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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