From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 26 03:37:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA02749 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 03:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA02741 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 03:37:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA12702; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:35:10 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199608261035.MAA12702@grumble.grondar.za> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), amir@neuron.net (Amir Y. Rosenblatt) Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:35:09 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > As Amir Y. Rosenblatt wrote: > > > I could hear the disk making little clicking noises (the kind it > > makes when you power it up) and spinnign down and then back up over and > > over. > > Overheated. Could be - I had this on a 1GB drive at work. Screwing it in properly and making the air flow decent by putting on the cover solved that problem. OTOH, at home I had a similar drive behave in much the same way; whenever it was busy, I'd hear the same "click, wind down, wind up, carry on", sometimes accompanied by a panic, and always accompanied by DEVICE RESET (Whatever eveyone is seeing). I solved that problem by replacing a crappy power splitter - (one of those 1-in, 2-out) jobs). I think it had a dry joint or something. Now I have a proper one, and all is well. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key