On Thu, Feb 6, 2014, at 04:07 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: > It never hurts to be careful. And backup everything before you turn off > those disks since they are old. Old disks keep running but often can't > restart from a stop.
If for some reason you do find yourself with disks that will not spin up again after being spun down, try leaving the box powered up at the failed boot screen for a time (at least 15 minutes, I recommend at least 30 minutes) before rebooting. This at least worked for me on a 200 megabyte disk in the 1990s (I fortunately have not had the problem since). -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
