On 9/25/07, Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/25/2007 2:03 PM, Paul G. Allen wrote: > > First SCSI drive to fail in many years (first one ever that I have > > purchased new). It's an IBM drive that I bought new sometime around the > > year ~2000. > > > > Long story short, it's my server and rarely ever gets turned off. I > > turned it off during the hot weather to save on the A/C bill. When I > > powered it up again, the drive will not spin up. The controller sees it, > > tries to tell it to start, it won't listen. > > > > Anyone have any ideas that might get it spinning again? Anyone got a > > reliable, cheap 36GB Ultra160 drive - cheap? (yes, I did say cheap > > twice :) ) > > Possible it's a mechanical hangup (bad bearing). Try taking it out and > give it a twist with your wrist, to spin the platters with respect to > the case. I'm not sure if I've had that work, but I always thought it > might. > > I had a SCSI drive quit this summer too, in much the same situation. The > controller doesn't even see it. > > Karl
Well, if the card can't see the drive, then that tells me the drive electronics have failed. In the older days of IDE, I was able to swap electronics with the same make/model of drive and get things to work. If it's a bearing problem, then that's an entirely different animal. Never tried to swap out platters into another frame and see if it would work. -- Mark Schoonover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 619-368-0099 Give me ambiguity, or give me something else! --kelsey hudson -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
