Julian Elischer writes: | just placing an unmounted drive down on a hard table, even when | not running, can ruin it. We lost hundreds that way at Whistle until | we did a failure analysis. Just placing a rubber mat on the table. | fixed it and instructing the staff to always put the drives on | a soft surface made the problem go right away.
Not quite. Burn-in helped more. A few were head slaps but more was just media that needed exercising. It's the "lands minds" that bite you more when it has swap or other critical data on it. A little historical correction. Flash is nice but it has some issues. Atleast dropping it isn't one! Doug A. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
