Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:46:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive spindown Message-ID: <19990420144614.W40482@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904192309270.14816-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>; from Patrick Seal on Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:10:10PM -0400 References: <19990420114701.F40482@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904192309270.14816-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 23:10:10 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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. > > I'm not sure if it matters, but this is a removeable drive (like a > Iomega Jaz) Yes, of course, that changes everything. But Jaz drives aren't what we normally understand by "hard drive". It looks as if I should have paid more attention to the reference to ORB and asked what it meant. It's a new TLA to me. 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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