Catatonic hard drive

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:19:34PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> So I was sitting by my SuSE 9.0 server today checking my mail, and every 
> few minutes or so I kept hearing that sound of the hard drive spinning up.
> 
> There are two possibilities, as I see it.  Either my hard drive is about to 
> go, or it's configured to sleep when it shouldn't (being a server that's on 
> 24/7).  Of course we all know that the more painful option is likely to be 
> the correct one, so I'm off to by a hard drive while my system is backing 
> up to my external USB drive.
> 
> - Am I missing any possibilities?

One. You could be hearing a thermal recalibration. Have you been
running smartmontools to check the status of the drive?

-dsr-


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