On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 19:07 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > I don't have any basis for my suspicion > except that the behaviours on my box of knocking two HDDs to death from > different manufacturers and the fact it was fine for a good long while > beforehand. And I guess I know there is libata and kernelside work to > do with ATA in kernels around that time. But it can as easily, well, > more easily, be a powersupply problem in my case. One other thing that just occurred to me: some years back, when I was installing my first Quantum SCSI HDD into a Taiwan-made industrial CPU chassis, I found that the vibration of the hard disk was quite considerable. I eventually put it in an external casing and attached it to the external SCSI interface because I did not want the vibration to create bad sectors on another drive inside the chassis, or cause the CDROM drive to wobble too much. Could vibration cause a hard disk to die early? -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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