Posted by: purevirtual
on February 07, 2005 10:32 PM
One system I had running for around 5 years that ran pretty much 24/7 I had replaced and set asside. I decided to bring it back to life with Linux. When I powered up I noticed the hard drive wouldn't spin up. I decided to try rotating the system box and doing that I got it to spin up. I suspect that the bearings were marginal and/or the motor wasn't strong enough to break the initial friction.
Also back when there were disk packs (2' diameter Hawk packs) tempature could mean the difference between a pack that was readable and one that was not. I was installing software from a pack and in the middle it stopped reading. Some experimenting showed that as the pack was spinning in the drive it was warming up and getting out of alignment with the system.
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Posted by: purevirtual on February 07, 2005 10:32 PMAlso back when there were disk packs (2' diameter Hawk packs) tempature could mean the difference between a pack that was readable and one that was not. I was installing software from a pack and in the middle it stopped reading. Some experimenting showed that as the pack was spinning in the drive it was warming up and getting out of alignment with the system.
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