Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:48:34 +, Tom Horsley wrote: I hope this isn't the same problem livna and fedora infrastructure had :-). Only Livna's x86 build server was down temporarily. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
Friday, my system disk died, so I took that as a sign to reinstall everything from scratch and reorganize my partitions (not to mention getting a much bigger disk). I figure the disk picked Friday to die because it knew fedora updates and livna build system were down, so it would be the most

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
Tom Horsley wrote: Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I'd bet on a power spike. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Alan Cox
Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I gad a very similar thing happen with IBM disks and a raid 1 array. That near miss

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tod Merley
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday, my system disk died, so I took that as a sign to reinstall everything from scratch and reorganize my partitions (not to mention getting a much bigger disk). I figure the disk picked Friday to die because it knew

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
I agree with the others, most likey power or impulse related. Yea, power could be it. I unplugged everything earlier in the day the first one died because one of those Wrath of God style thunder boomers was heading my way. Maybe I didn't turn it off soon enough. Anyway, it looks like the repos

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with the others, most likey power or impulse related. Yea, power could be it. I unplugged everything earlier in the day the first one died because one of those Wrath of God style thunder boomers was heading my

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:44:23 -0700 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If lightning strikes close enough it doesn't matter if it's unplugged, lightning causes an EMP which could fry stuff. Has to be really close though,. and you'd know it. For a little while, this was one of those

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 21:47 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:44:23 -0700 Russell Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If lightning strikes close enough it doesn't matter if it's unplugged, lightning causes an EMP which could fry stuff. Has to be really close though,. and

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Alan Cox wrote: Is this just a sign of superb quality control in the samsung disk factories turning out identical disks that last almost the exact same amount of time in the same CPU case with the same number of power cycles? I gad a very similar thing happen with IBM disks and a raid 1 array.

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Russell Miller
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a little while, this was one of those flash-boom varieties with no time delay between flash and boom, so some of them were indeed pretty close. No time delay? Yeah, I think you found the source of your problem.

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 21:47 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: this was one of those flash-boom varieties with no time delay between flash and boom I had one of them, with no warning (it was the first strike). It scared the wits out of me, and one of the computers. It suddenly winked out and rebooted,

Re: spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

2008-08-17 Thread Ed Greshko
Tim wrote: I've seen live television where a camera was struck. They were filming the golf, and one of the remotes got hit. The picture went wonky, then the cameraman dropped his camera, then picked up moments later and carried on filming, unaware of what bit him until told about it. I don't