From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 17:22:24 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 CB44516A406 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:22:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from pqueueb.post.tele.dk (pqueueb.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669CD13C4AA for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:22:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.237]) by pqueueb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7111E8317 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:51:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from m00h.dienub.org (dienub.org [87.48.115.212]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620B08A003C; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:51:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by m00h.dienub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DAF311458; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:51:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45C36C14.8040704@dienub.org> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:51:32 +0100 From: "Daniel A." User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert References: <200702021621.l12GLERH018356@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <200702021621.l12GLERH018356@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chris.eubank@gov.bc.ca, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, "Matthew D. Fuller" , william.parr@gov.bc.ca Subject: Re: Coincidence X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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 17:22:24 -0000 Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <20070202150548.GS12602@over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" > writes > : >> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:35:16AM -0800 I heard the voice of >> Cy Schubert, and lo! it spake thus: >>> 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. >> ACK! >> >> Please don't say that where my ~10 year old drives can hear you :( > > I do have a full height 9 GB Seagate SCSI in a P150-S which is ~10-12 years > old and still spinning (and still sounding like a jet engine). Good genes, > I guess. > > All my other drives are spinning at half speed in respect for the two which > have passed on. > > (Sorry, forgot to CC) On the note of dying hard drives, I come to think of one particular drive that I'm using in my server right now. It's a 120GB Maxtor drive. Not old, but this story is worh it. One day, my server had crashed on me. I had a faulty CPU at that time. When I tried to turn my server back on, the machine just hung, and the drive was saying little "click click click click" noises. "Oh no!", I thought to myself, "All my PORN!?" Could it really be that I had been subjected to the click of death? In despair, I turned off the box, and let it stay powered off in my closet for a whole, full week. So, I came back from work one night, and decided to check if the drive was really dead. I turned on the box, and it booted! All my files were in place, no damages had happened. The drive has been working flawlessly ever since, except now I use a seagate as my main system disk, and the Maxtor as /home.