From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 15:47:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2BA91563D for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from p4.a8.du.radix.net (p4.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.132]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03725; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:45:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:45:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive spindown (ORB, Castlewood) In-Reply-To: <371BACD4.6CEC913A@3-cities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, this drive JUST CAME OUT less than a month ago. I do not have the drive. I am quoting something said on slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/19/2021246 This is a removable drive that acts just like a real hard drive. More information on ORB: http://www.castlewoodsystems.com/ I am asking because I want one, but It obviously would be nice to have it spin down. Thanks, ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Patrick Seal wrote: > > > > 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. > > I have EIDE drives that have never been turned off in 2 or 3 years > except for lightening storms and hardware installs. Western Digital > drives, for example, are programmed to move every so many seconds of > idle time to prevent wear down. There is a whole new set of technology > that keep the modern drives from wearing out like yours did. > > Kent > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message