Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:47:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive spindown Message-ID: <19990420114701.F40482@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904191757450.87198-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>; from Patrick Seal on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 06:01:34PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904191757450.87198-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 18:01:34 -0400, 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. This is an assumption on your part. Modern drives are designed for continuous operation. The lack of spindown was not the cause of the failure. Also, since disk heads float over the surface, they would never "grind off the cylinders" unless they landed, which would normally be caused by dust in the HDA. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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