On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Skylar Thompson wrote: (snip) > How did it die? If it's a spindle failure, then dropping them or > freezing them can free up the spindle and buy you a bit more life. A bug in our auto-bootup system after a power failure decided to format their whole box :) Gotta love them buglets. > I've got two old full-height 1GB Hitachis in a DECsystem 5000/240 > (NetBSD, not Linux) that bit the dust and refused to spin up, but > after dropping them from about 40cm over a hard-wood floor they > started working again. I suspect the platters or the heads were > damaged either in the drop or from age, because I started getting bad > sectors after a couple weeks, but that was enough time to pull the > important data off. I dropped an old 250Mb Western Digital hdd onto a marble floor from at least 5 feet -- believe it or not, that hdd is still running (albeit I don't own it anymore). They don't make things like they used too -- nowadays the h/w is getting flimsy like. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
