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 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). > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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, > _nasturtium > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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