[plug] Fax & Voicemail Random Thought...

[Trevor Phillips]

On Friday 26 July 2002 14:32, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how accurate this is, but I HAVE witnessed before powering
> > down a machine that had been running for years, where powering up had the
> > HDD fail.
>
> Yeah, been there done that. *sigh*. I suspect its the heat myself - the
> drive cools, changes shape slightly, there are stresses involved. All
> well and good if its in good condition but if its not far from failing
> anyway it'll most likely die when power-cycled, especially if allowed to
> cool.

That's possible. After stressing out over the dead drive, I plugged it into 
another machine, and just left it on. After about 2 hours, there was a whine 
as it spun back up. Needless to say, I quickly backed up all the data from 
there. ^_^

> > In fact, we powered the machine down to connect a Tape Drive so we could
> > properly back up the content of the HDD which didn't power back up. ;_;
>
> One more reason to want hot-swap components.

Being SCSI we probably could've just shoved in the Tape drive, but we wanted 
to play it safe... So much for that idea.

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