On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Holden Hao wrote:
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> I read a post before about hard drives conking out if always mounted but
> not used at all. Is this true? What is the possible cause for this? I
> do not know if its just coincidence but my former hard disk which I
> replaced with a new one but left installed anyway conked out after a few
> months. The old drive had an entry in fstab (automount) so it was always
> mounted whenever I boot up. But I hardly access the disk since the new
> drive was large. The old one just had my old files. So did that killed
> my hard disk? If so, its a lesson learned the hard way. =)
That's NOT true. A drive will (eventually) be powered down if it's not in
use.
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