From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 21:08:30 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 414B716A403 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:08:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nicole@unixgirl.com) Received: from web51814.mail.yahoo.com (web51814.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4B3113C4B3 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:08:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nicole@unixgirl.com) Received: (qmail 66066 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Feb 2007 20:41:48 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: SOuL3mYVM1k6s2PVLjGrPC6qXe8UwTNA5yBEO4GxLRGwrxSXXXQ2MOAnHql1hSbcVjO5wVyPtrnPzYjytuykyKJc6E_IDWB5uhLy41Xasz7Id5yQbyrDSpUfA40OwaxBwObCQXbwsFvfpC4- Received: from [67.112.21.27] by web51814.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:41:45 PST X-RocketYMMF: blabgoo Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:41:45 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <228553.64561.qm@web51814.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Coincidence X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nicole@unixgirl.com 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 21:08:30 -0000 --- "Daniel A." wrote: > 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. I have had a couple of drives succom to the click of death, but I never thought to punish them with a time-out to make them consider working. On a few cases, I found that when trying to get the data off a clicking drive, I could give it a good Wack when it locked up and that would make it go a bit further to get more data off. To each their own style :) Nicole Feeling very Ilsa The Drive Warden