Subject: Re: [help] how to spin down sca hdds in SS5
To: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@acm.jhu.edu>
From: Linc Fessenden <linc@thelinuxlink.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/16/2002 18:35:53
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jack Lloyd wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> 
> > You would be amazed at what you can do with a roll of velcro.
> 
> Yes, I've considered it. But I've seen way too many disks die that way
> (mostly in Macs). I don't care about the disks themselves; if one died
> every 6 months, that gives me two years of decent use, which is fine,
> because by then I will (hopefully) have a decent job and I'll just go buy
> an Ultra60 or something :). But I don't want to go through the hassle of
> realizing it died, pulling it, putting in a new one, setting everything up,
> etc. Especially with the chance of it taking something else out with it.
> 
> -J
> 

Velcro causes your disks to die?  Huh?

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-Linc Fessenden

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