Coincidence

[Nicole]

--- "Daniel A." <alive at dienub.org> wrote:

> Cy Schubert wrote:
> > In message <20070202150548.GS12602 at over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D.
> Fuller" 
> > writes
> > :
> >> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:35:16AM -0800 I heard the voice of
> >> Cy Schubert, and lo! it spake thus:
> >>> The one drive in front of me has a manufacture date of 21APR2001.
> >>> That's a long life for a disk drive. May both drives rest in
> peace.
> >> ACK!
> >>
> >> Please don't say that where my ~10 year old drives can hear you  
> :(
> > 
> > I do have a full height 9 GB Seagate SCSI in a P150-S which is
> ~10-12 years 
> > old and still spinning (and still sounding like a jet engine). Good
> genes, 
> > I guess.
> > 
> > All my other drives are spinning at half speed in respect for the
> two which 
> > have passed on.
> > 
> > 
> (Sorry, forgot to CC)
> On the note of dying hard drives, I come to think of one particular 
> drive that I'm using in my server right now.
> 
> It's a 120GB Maxtor drive. Not old, but this story is worh it.
> One day, my server had crashed on me. I had a faulty CPU at that
> time. 
> When I tried to turn my server back on, the machine just hung, and
> the 
> drive was saying little "click click click click" noises. "Oh no!", I
> 
> thought to myself, "All my PORN!?" Could it really be that I had been
> 
> subjected to the click of death?
> In despair, I turned off the box, and let it stay powered off in my 
> closet for a whole, full week.
> 
> So, I came back from work one night, and decided to check if the
> drive 
> was really dead. I turned on the box, and it booted! All my files
> were 
> in place, no damages had happened. The drive has been working
> flawlessly 
> ever since, except now I use a seagate as my main system disk, and
> the 
> Maxtor as /home.

 I have had a couple of drives succom to the click of death, but I
never thought to punish them with a time-out to make them consider
working.

 On a few cases, I found that when trying to get the data off a
clicking   drive, I could give it a good Wack when it locked up and
that would make it go a bit further to get more data off. To each their
own style :)

   Nicole
      Feeling very Ilsa The Drive Warden