19 Sep
2006
19 Sep
'06
9:31 a.m.
"Chuck Guzis" wrote:
...
a servers. Fortunately, I had the SMART monitoring
enabled on Linux and it
diagnosed the "Drive is in imminent danger of failing" condition. Whole
tracks were going sour. Replaced it with a 9GB Quantum of approximately
anyone on the list privy to failure analysis reports on modern IDE/SATA
drives?
i'm just curious what fails... does the read channel become noisy? if so,
why? or do the heads fails? (again, why?) or does the positioning fail?
(again, why?)
i've just been curious what fails these days. seems like they should
run a lot longer than they do. stiction and motor driver failures make
senses but I never see then any more. now days they just seem to stop
reading data correctly.
-brad