From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 23:43:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17291 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.eu.org (valerian.glou.eu.org [193.56.58.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA17282 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.eu.org (8.7.3/8.7.1/951117) with UUCP id IAA23055 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:43:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.glou.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id IAA07969 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:14:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199608270614.IAA07969@tetard.glou.eu.org> Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives To: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:14:46 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199608261505.RAA16897@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at "Aug 26, 96 05:05:54 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian H. Stacey écrit / writes: > & then there was my ex colleague in London, who decided `acceptance test' > included getting all the _big_ drives in a row of racks to head seek the > same way, at the same time, & then tuning to resonant frequency of the > row of racks ... ! Ahh, there, I knew we'd get there one day : WALKING DISK DRIVES ! See the Jargon File for the appropriate entry :-) BTW, I'm writing up a "Hardware maintenance" section -- could be useful in the handbook (proper ventilation, do's and dont's), or does this seem too way out of line with FreeBSD ? Any suggestions / tips ? -- Phil -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]- -[ "To kärve or nøt to kärve, that is the qvestion..." -- My sister ]-