Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:59:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parking disk drive heads Message-ID: <200508200359.j7K3xoHF015718@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <43060FA4.5080807@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer writes: | just placing an unmounted drive down on a hard table, even when | not running, can ruin it. We lost hundreds that way at Whistle until | we did a failure analysis. Just placing a rubber mat on the table. | fixed it and instructing the staff to always put the drives on | a soft surface made the problem go right away. Not quite. Burn-in helped more. A few were head slaps but more was just media that needed exercising. It's the "lands minds" that bite you more when it has swap or other critical data on it. A little historical correction. Flash is nice but it has some issues. Atleast dropping it isn't one! Doug A.
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