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dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote, On 01/17/2005 08:56 PM: > 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? No! I thought I had that running. I do now, and set to email both me and my cellphone on error. Thanks. I do check the temperature periodically with mbmon, but that's not really a good indicator of hard drive temp (not that I know what the three three temperatured returned by mbmon really mean anyway). -- DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net DK KD "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. DKK D In the long run of history the censor and the inquisitor have always DK KD lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." DDDD - A. Whitney Griswold
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