On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:05:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:53, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:31:15PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:12:14PM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > [snip] > > > Ah, the old "whack the drive case with a screwdriver handle" trick :-) > > > > How brutal! > > > > No, I pull the drives, give them a bunch of rapid half-spins about the > > major platter axis, and try powering them up. Once they spin up, I let > > them run for a few minutes, then put them back on their rails in the > > case. Usually they'll spin up again immediately after. > > Gak! That could get a bit time-consuming if your SAN has a dozen TB. > (With 75GB disks, that would be 160 spindles...)
You could use the agitator drive out of a top-loading washing machine to build a gizmo that makes the entire chassis do the twist (just leave plenty of slack in the cables). Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
