Jason, I have Seagate and Quantum scsi disks, ~1G each. One of them, I'm pretty sure it's the Quantum, spins up then down again during disk/scsi identification. I don't consider it defective--I'm assuming that the driver is exercising capabilities that the disk has. It spins up again a bit later and stays spinning.
Some of my disks also get pretty hot but I've often run them for weeks at a time. The times I noticed what I considered to be *hot* I'd been running without the cover on my box so I figured proper air flow wasn't being observed. I've seen the same disks spin continiously for hundreds of days in Sun workstations. -emk > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:02 -0700 > From: Dan Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball EIDE uncooperative > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote: > > > > > I should point out that during boot, the hard drive spins up, green > > > light looking normal, then spins down with the green light blinking > > > slowly and non-stop. I am not familiar enough with hard drive fails to > > > know exactly what this means. > > > > I've seen things like this on older SCSI disks, the disk thinks something > > is wrong enough for it to abort it's powerup. If you went out of it's > > rated heat range then your toast, otherwise I'd phone up quantum and hope > > it's on warrenty. > > I got is a few months ago... less than 6. The thing is, it spins up > later... > > > If your PC got hot enought to cause the disk to have problems I'd worry > > about other components too.. Probably took a year off it's life! > > > > I know my 2G fireball doesn't get very hot while running.. > > I have a 3.2G, if that is useful. The rest of the system was fine (ie > ran off the rescue disk, and was not particularly warm to the touch > anywhere, and the power supply was also pretty cool), and the machine > had been up on other such hot days... I just happened to check the drive > thinking heat might be the problem. I guess "HOT" should be taken as a > relative term... I mean, I touched a bare powerpc running at 300 MHz, > and that was much hotter. Let's say the drive was very warm, but still > spun up on my next attempt to boot (then spun down again with the > blinking green light). > > Drive spin-up delay out-of-whack at boot time? > > Any other guesses? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
