Stiction

Marvin Johnston wrote: Yep, on early Connor IDE drives. I don't know if that happened to be a bad batch (I was testing them a couple of years after manufacture and 2/3 were DOA due to stiction), or "they were all like that, sir". I don't recall seeing it on later IDE drives though, or on any SCSI drive (don't forget that some SCSI drives won't spin up without communication with the HBA, so can appear dead when power only is applied) my *assumption* is that it's some sort of break-down in either the head material or the coating on the platters, such that when at rest of any period of time the heads manage to reattach themselves to the platters. Unfortunately there seems to be no cure, expect for never powering the drive down until some other failure finally renders it useless. cheers Jules -- there's a carp in the tub there's a carp in the tub so nobody's taken a bath