On 20 May 2002 00:25:02 +1000 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Remembering back to the days when HDD's were measured in pounds. I could suggest this as a probability. We had some old AMPeg (yes AMPeg) HDD's about 50 meg I believe that had trouble spinning up if you ever shut them down. When they were new, no problem. But over time the motor that spun the platten lost tourque. So it had a lot of trouble starting the platten to spin. Once it did it would run forever. So this system was the only system on site that was allowed to run 24/7 and the only "computer" that was on the full backup system for power (battery, genarator and additional methods) I'd be inclined to believe that it was a motor failure probably caused by heat not a case of heads attaching themselves to a platten. James > > Brian > > >
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