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
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