From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 13:58:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5881C16A402 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Received: from spqr.komquats.com (S0106002078125c0c.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.150.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BBA13C4B7 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:58:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Received: from cwsys.cwsent.com (cwsys [10.1.1.1]) by spqr.komquats.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E07A4C5C5; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 05:35:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l12DZGJx016620; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 05:35:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@komquats.com) Message-Id: <200702021335.l12DZGJx016620@cwsys.cwsent.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 From: Cy Schubert X-os: FreeBSD X-Sender: cy@cwsent.com X-URL: http://www.komquats.com/ To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:35:16 -0800 Sender: Cy.Schubert@komquats.com Cc: chris.eubank@gov.bc.ca, william.parr@gov.bc.ca Subject: Coincidence X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Cy Schubert List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:58:20 -0000 This is one of those things that just make you go... hmmmm? I had a couple of Maxtor 5T040H4 40 GB IDE drives fail on me within days of each other. The first drive spent most of its life as my production system boot drive until I replaced it with a 120 GB a year ago. It then spent it's remaining life in my XP machine as a slave IDE drive. Strangely it would hang the IDE bus. The second of the two Maxtor drives spent its life in various FreeBSD machines here, lately being my /opt in my media machine in my bedroom. It didn't hang the IDE bus. It responded to id requests from the BIOS but when it came time to read /usr/local or /usr/X11R6, nada, nothing. The directories were there but all the files returned with I/O errors, UDMA errors in syslog. The one drive in front of me has a manufacture date of 21APR2001. That's a long life for a disk drive. May both drives rest in peace. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert FreeBSD UNIX: Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org e**(i*pi)+1=0