Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Jan 2003 07:16:44 -0500 To: NewbieMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:52, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday January 6

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread _nasturtium
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 02:00 am, Andrew Miller wrote: I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these drives failing and now

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:52, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday January 6 2003 08:00 pm, Andrew Miller wrote: I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM

RE: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
Hi all Found this in a Solaris mailing list. Maybe IBM deskstar does have defects. HTH Cheers... Looks like it's still there in Solaris 9 EA. Of course, it's probably a problem with the drives themselves, but I was hoping it would have been fixed in 9. For those that haven't seen the

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Jan 2003 07:16:44 -0500 To: NewbieMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:52, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday January 6 2003 08:00 pm

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread et
snip I'm in the school that turns stuff off. I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of comparing a hard drive with a short circuit. I'm more amiable to thinking of a hard drive as having miles, like a car; which is a much closer analogy. It's closer because of bearing surfaces; the number of

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 09:20, et wrote: H, since I have been a Diesel Tech for over 20 years (before computers, and still am certified to teach it (and do for Mitsubishi/Caterpillar) I would ask you to consider that it is not recommended to start and stop larger diesels that are turbo

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread John
AND ANOTHER --- _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 02:00 am, Andrew Miller wrote: I built a server recently for web server, email

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 00:59, Angus Auld wrote: Wow Lyvim, do I ever agree wholeheartedly! I have never been comfortable with the idea of leaving something on when it isn't in use. Not a light bulb, not anything really. I don't know a lot about electronics, but I have been interested in

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-08 Thread Pilagá
El Mar 07 Ene 2003 12:24, Tony S. Sykes escribió: Andy, I saw something recently about the IBM hard drives (Can't remember where) but they are fine if they have good ventilation. They have a heat build up problem from what I remember from the article, but if they have sufficient space to

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 2:00 am, Andrew Miller wrote: I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these drives failing and now

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:03:48 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 2:00 am, Andrew Miller wrote: I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 11:26 am, Jerry wrote: As a suggestion, when you decide to replace these (which i certainly hope you do and that you can get a refund on the pieces of junk) I've had 2 Maxtor drives in my older computer for 5 years now and it is always on. No problems with these

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Chuck Burns
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 05:28, Anne Wilson wrote: I like Maxtor drives - and I especially like the fact that they are the cheapest offered by my vendor as well as being utterly reliable in my experience. Maxtor? Bad Juju for me. Probably one of the loudest hard drives I've ever used. I've

RE: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Message- From: Andrew Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday January 6 2003 08:00 pm, Andrew Miller wrote: I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these drives failing and now

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:52 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: There's two schools on this, I side with those that believe spinning the drives down is a bad idea. Sort'a like a lightbulb, they last longer if you're not always turnin 'em off and on ;) One of the things I do when I install a

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 02:10, Chuck Burns wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 05:28, Anne Wilson wrote: I like Maxtor drives - and I especially like the fact that they are the cheapest offered by my vendor as well as being utterly reliable in my experience. Maxtor? Bad Juju for me.

[newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-06 Thread Andrew Miller
I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these drives failing and now recommends only using them 330 hours a month, something

Re: [newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:00, Andrew Miller wrote: I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these drives failing and now