It seems Doug White wrote:
> > >
> > > > FWIW - I enabled APM over the weekend, configuring drives to
> > > > spin down when not used for a good period of time. I get the
> > > > message you list below, alternately with status 50 and 58, any
> > > > time a drive needs to spin up.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the response. FWIW I have no apm enabled and these
> > > drives don't have a chance to spin down since they're always busy when
> > > under load.
> >
> > Do those drives happen to be IBM DeskStar drives?
> > They spin down automatically when they have not been turned
> > off for about a week, in order to clean the heads.
> > It's a feature.
>
> You've got to be kidding. That makes them totally useless for server
> operation -- at some random time every week, down goes your server for a
> few minutes. :(
That can't be true, at least not for the IBM DeskStars I own, I've
NEVER EVER seen them do that, one proof should be:
11:22PM up 105 days, 4:18, 1 user, load averages: 1.06, 0.94, 0.91
dmesg snippet:
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-DTTA-350840>, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16
wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
And none of the other machines I have with semilar or newer IBM's
have ever done this, in fact I've yet to see one of them fail in
any way..
-Søren
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