From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 12:45:38 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 1B98E14ECA for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from p2.a8.du.radix.net (p2.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.130]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28973; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:42:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive spindown In-Reply-To: <19990420144614.W40482@lemis.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 Thanks, I probably should have been more clear, but I never got an answer whether or not I can spin down the drive like Linux's hdparm. ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ 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 Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message