Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 17:30:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" <amir@neuron.net> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nirva@ishiboo.com Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives Message-ID: <199608252130.RAA01702@prozac.neuron.net> In-Reply-To: <199608240641.IAA08952@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Aug 24, 96 08:41:51 am"
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> > no, but it could push it over the edge if cooling is not sufficient.. > > Btw., if i read the mail correctly, the drives are not going entirely > dead. It's just that they decouple from the SCSI bus, so perhaps they > are simply reacting to a detected overheating condition. As it happens, the drive of mine that I mentioned (this is now the second boot disk I've had on this machine) bit it last night. Started getting messages like: sd0(ahc0:0:0): timed out in datain phase fatal process exception; page fault, fault V=0x18920 and a slew of the usual SCSI warnings (see the earlier posts for specifics -- I'd put some in but the thing was so hosed that it couldn;t even log the errors). I could hear the disk making little clicking noises (the kind it makes when you power it up) and spinnign down and then back up over and over. I brought tha machine down, took off the face plates and let it cool off for an hour (the room it's in has a/c). Once ves were cool to the touch I tried to bring it back up again, but alas, no dice. I spent a solid 2 more hours at iut before giving up. Tried one more time this morning but to no avail and just spent the day swapping in a new disk (lucky I have a spare). That'll make 2 'cudas dead in about 3-4 weeks. I am: displeased. Any suggestions (includsing recommendations for appropriate external enclosures that'll keep these suckers cool -- I still have a 3rd disk I want to add in to the system). -Amir
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