On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:50, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Most of those links (and others) refer to IBM HDD's over 40GB > havin problems. I just recently had a 10 month old, IBM 30GB 7200rpm > ata/100 2mb drive fail. My Linux drive ;( Mechanical problem. The > drive was used 24/7, but after being shutdown for a week while I was > out'a town, it wouldn't spin up when I booted the system. System > wouldn't even boot with that drive connected. Fortunately I had most > of the stuff I needed from that drive backed up to CD's. I replaced > it with a Maxtor 40GB. OTOH, my Windoze drive is a several years old > IBM 7200rpm, ata/66 13.6GB. Never has a problem ..... yet ;) > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
I remember back in "it's Y2K - the end is nigh!" days, a warning from some advisory group - maybe Gartner - that drives running 24/7 on systems being shutdown over the "danger period" were likely never to spin up again. I think it was something about the heads getting stuck to the platters. While they kept spinning, or during very short power downs, everything stayed warm and smooth, but when they got cold... Anyway - sounds like what happened to you. Sounds like a good reason for a UPS - well, another good reason. Brian
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