--- "Daniel A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cy Schubert wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"