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 recommends only using them 330 hours a month,
> something less than 50% of the time (see
> http://www.sheller.com/ibmpress.htm). My question is whether my use of
> these drives in a server application is something I should avoid?
> Also, is there a setting for power savings that would sleep the drive
> when it is not getting any hits (most of the time). Looks l could add
> a decent SCSI drive that is meant for always-on use. Your feedback is
> welcome.
>
> Andy Miller
Hello,
Something i read on the reiserfs mailing list:
---------- Forwarded Part Message ----------
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at prints.c:334
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 08:36:22 +0100
From: Maciej Matysiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On the 6th of January 2003 at 08:11, Oleg Drokin <green#namesys.com> wrote:
> Logs you just provided show that your harddrive cannot remember what it was
> supposed to store anymore.
yes. it appeared that the disk has just died. without any warning, just
stopped spinning. i didn't know that at the time of sending the mail (i've
had only remote access to the server), so please forgive me wasting your
time.
btw., it appears for me that ibm disks have something like 'y2k3 problem'.
it's a poor joke, but i got already 3 ibm disks that died in my servers this
year. that one was working not even 3 weeks. all of them scsi, made in
hungary or italy. is it my bad luck, or should i buy seagate next time?
(rhetorical question, i don't want to start flamewar here).
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It seems you're lucky your hard disks lasted a whole month! :-/ So I'd say
avoid the IBM hard drives (and WD, I've read).
There are power-saving modes, you can do IIRC "apmd -s", hdparm *might*.
However, if there is even minor but intermitent access then your hard disk
will power up again, plus the query will be very slow (waiting for the HD).
Regards,
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