From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 10:33:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02669 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02663 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id MAA14379; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:31:19 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199607241731.MAA14379@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: A new twist on the reboot problems To: amir@garpac.com (Amir Rosenblatt) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:31:19 -0500 (CDT) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, amir@neuron.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Amir Rosenblatt" at Jul 24, 96 12:58:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I would definitely say that it's either a dying power supply, or a > > dying hard drive (having trouble spinning up). > > Yeah, I'm about 95% sure it's the hard drive. I shuffled things around > this morning a bit to give that drive more breathing room (glad I got a > full tower case :) It's been behaving since then -- if it doesn't crash > in the next 12 hours or so, then I'm going to run under the assumption > that it was a heat problem. Otherwise I'll swap it out for a fresh > drive. I'll be calling Seagate this afternoon anyway to see what they > can tell me about this sorta stuff. > > > Either way, I'm pretty positive you're seeing bad hardware somewhere > > if you're getting this many crashes. > > Yeah, it's looking that way. Thanks for your time, The spin-up spin-down thing is sometimes the sign of a bad power connector. I used to have some drive power-Y's on news.sol.net that would affect the drives. You could wiggle them and a drive would spin down... On the other hand, Barracuda's sometimes just die - particularly if they have been heat-abused. While the 'cudas are still my favored drive, I've seen two failures too many in the last two weeks. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968