[lug] hard drive failure

[F.L. Whiteley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us 
> [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Nate Duehr
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:15
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [lug] hard drive failure
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 4, 2009, at 9:08 AM, F.L. Whiteley wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes I've had to 'spank' the frozen drives or change their  
> > orientation to get them to work.  I mean a good solid thump.
> 
> I'm embarrassed to admit that a whack on the data center floor (last  
> resort) for an old SCSI drive, saved me and a co-worker from 
> many MANY  
> hours of rebuilding a box that wasn't backed up properly... once.
> 
> Sometime's it's better to be lucky than good?  LOL!
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr
> nate at natetech.com
> 
You bet!  If they don't start initially, I'll give them a flick of the
wrist or hit them on a corner right at power up in the the direction of
the platter rotation to start rotation or maybe jar the heads.  Start
easy, more effort as needed.  Once saw a page that gave Maxtor diagnosis
based on the particular startup noises.  Can't find the link just now,
but an interesting read.

Frank Whiteley