Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:01:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hard drive spindown Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904191757450.87198-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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On a recent slashdot discussion on the new ORB drives: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/19/2021246 - I got the EIDE version a little over a month ago. It installs into a linux machine flawlessly. The only problem that I had was couple weeks after I got the drive I heard a grinding noise. Turned out that linux never spun the drive down even once in that first 2 weeks and I never used it, so it ended up grinding off the cylinders off the far edge of the platter. I promptly exchanged it and set a spindown with hdparm and its been working beautifully ever since. I would definatly recommend this drive, just make sure that you either use the drive a lot or get it to spin down. Seems like the drive should move the head around all by itself to avoid damage like what happened to me though. - Is there a way to spin down the drive in FreeBSD? Thanks, ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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