Ok, here's an update on the drive... Western Digital, Caviar 33100 (3.1GB) IDE hard drive. Has worked fine in the machine (bios detected and everything) since 1998. Machine's uptime was about 170 days, running 5.2. The drive is DEAD... I mean Monty Python Dead Parrot dead. It's a hunk of metal and silicon... why can I say this so assuredly? We applied power to it from a number of bench sets after pulling it and noticed a very bad condition... the drive is either the smoothest spinning harddrive ever made, or it's not spinning AT ALL. The WD Lifeguard toolset does not detect it, either, which I found interesting... I would expect the electronics would still be working in the controller but I get no response even from Data Lifeguard. I sent it to our support folks, who showed it to one of the bosses who (indirectly) was one of the folks keeping me from being able to connect up my tape library, and with a bit of a tear in his eye, he opened a drawer on his desk, pulled out a brand new WD 10 GB drive (still in the sealed Electrostatic bag) and handed it over. I had to rebuild Linus from scratch (all of our Linux machines are named after characters in the old Peanuts Cartoons... anyone remember those from way back when? ;) and I've still not recreated all the user accounts. Good news is that the user spaces were being NFS served from one of our other boxes (and SGI Onyx2), so our user accounts are intact... just the system image and a few tweaks for the box (a PPro 200) had to be redone. The new drive will actually help us... one of our users needs access to his files under different circumstances than others, so we can use the space to serve his account from Linus instead of from the Onyx. Two birds, one stone, etc. So, all I've lost is time (well, quite a bit of time, but....) Bill Ward -----Original Message----- From: Richard KHOO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 8:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil Subject: Re: [OT] Y2K non-related woes (was RE: Adaptec AHA-1740 EISA-How to c onfig?) Is that scsi or ide? (don't know if this is relevant - unfortunately I so not have scsi) If ide, can your bios autodetect hard disk drives? Shoudld be unless your motherboard is really old. Anyway, I would go into bios, run the autodetect facility and re-boot. Also you may want to try switching on/off a few times. I have a machine which would die if I leave it off for a few days and I have to do that to encourage the hard disk to spin up. -- Cheers Richard KHOO Guan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > Not so happy here.... I was directed to shut down every system under > my control on the 30th and bring them up on the 3rd... well, my premier > Linux box (I have 3 NT boxes, a 98 box, 2 Linux boxes and a Beowulf cluster, > an HPUX, 5 SGI O2s, an O2K and a Onyx2 under my cognizance at work) came > up with the worst Y2K news you can have.... > > Primary HD failure on boot. Now it looks like the secondary has failed as > well... FWIW, they are both WD Caviars. The machine had had an uptime of > 170 days prior to the shutdown.... :( The drives appear to be paperweights > now.... > > And of course, it's one of only four machines I have no adequate backups > for. 8( Darn it, I've been telling my boss to let me hook up our StorageTek > library so that I can get the backups going properly, and he's blown me off > on it since February (but promises the end of this February). And now > >I'M< going to be the one in trouble. TINJ. > > Bill Ward > -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
