On Saturday 25 January 2003 11:33, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from my
> harddisk, especially during I/O operations.
First of all, thanks to those who answered, luckily there was and is nothing
of value on that disk anyway, so I guess I'll k
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:48:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:13:27PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > ...
> > > If it's a desktop box, don't worry about letting them spin down at
> > > all, your speakers probably draw more power than your hard
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:13:27PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > ...
> > If it's a desktop box, don't worry about letting them spin down at
> > all, your speakers probably draw more power than your hard drive.
>
> Have you even felt how warm disk drives get?
Yes. But
First, thanks to those who answered.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at sometime, Pigeon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:40:16PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:29PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> > > How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear
> > > and tea
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:40:16PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:29PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> > How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear
> > and tear from a single spin-up" to the cost of letting it run for a
> > length of time?
>
> If it'
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:29PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear
> and tear from a single spin-up" to the cost of letting it run for a
> length of time?
If it's a desktop box, don't worry about letting them spin down at
all, your s
hi ya
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, nate wrote:
> Narins, Josh said:
>
> > Dear Debian users,
> > How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear
> > and tear from a single spin-up" to the cost of letting it run for a length
> > of time?
>
> this would probably vary depending on what
Narins, Josh said:
> Dear Debian users,
> How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear
> and tear from a single spin-up" to the cost of letting it run for a length
> of time?
this would probably vary depending on what kind of disk. So it's very
difficult to calculate.
>
> From: Paul Johnson, Saturday, January 25, 2003 8:02 AM
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:33:42AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
>
> > For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from
> > my harddisk, especially during I/O operations. From the sound of it,
> > it might be a seek to somew
Paul Johnson said:
> * Type "shutdown now" to go to single user mode and just leave it at the
> root password prompt until you need to use that machine, then hit
> Control-D to cancel out of it. The only two things running when it's at
> that prompt are init and rootlogin, so it won't be access
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:33:42AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from
> my harddisk, especially during I/O operations. From the sound of it,
> it might be a seek to somewhere on the disk.
Yes, probably if it's only happening during di
Hi all...
For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from my
harddisk, especially during I/O operations. From the sound of it, it might be
a seek to somewhere on the disk. Could this be accesses to the journal (using
ext3)? I want to be sure here because I had a severe failur
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