Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:08:26 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: dave@persprog.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD failure; possible causes?? Message-ID: <5094.874775306@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 12:06:21 EDT." <19970920120621.31536@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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In message <19970920120621.31536@vinyl.quickweb.com>, Mark Mayo writes: >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. I saw a diskpack suffer instant death once because of a hammerdrill going into the wall from the other side. At a bad frequency it takes nothing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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