on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:31:15PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:12:14PM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
<...> > > Additional problem: "stiction" on old drives. I've got a set of SCSIs > > from 1998 which can't be shut down for more than a few minutes without > > requiring some manual encouragement to spin up again. > > Ah, the old "whack the drive case with a screwdriver handle" trick :-) How brutal! No, I pull the drives, give them a bunch of rapid half-spins about the major platter axis, and try powering them up. Once they spin up, I let them run for a few minutes, then put them back on their rails in the case. Usually they'll spin up again immediately after. > If you really want to hear stiction horror stories, go talk to people > who have administrated (big) mainframes and experienced a power > outage. /me hands Nathan a beer. Do tell ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
