From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 20 09:05:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA12244 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 09:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA12238 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA05129; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 12:06:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970920120621.31536@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 12:06:21 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: dave@persprog.com Cc: Mark Mayo , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HD failure; possible causes?? References: <19970919230016.40089@vinyl.quickweb.com> <3423DC8B.F5A1D720@persprog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3423DC8B.F5A1D720@persprog.com>; from Dave Alderman on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 10:24:11AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 10:24:11AM -0400, Dave Alderman wrote: > Mark Mayo wrote: > > > > 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. > > By any chance, is the air conditioning turned off on the weekend? No, and when I got there the fans were still working just fine. I don't think it was a cooling problem, but it certainly might have cotributed somehow. The leasing reasoning seems to suggest that vibration killed them. Time for a better disk tower I suppose... or better disks at least. cya, -Mark > > -- > "Going down to South Park - going to leave my woes behind..." > David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The newest book, The Dilbert Future, took a broader view, describing how idiots will threaten every aspect of business, technology and society in the future." --Scott Adams