> 
> Hmm...  Shortly after telling people how wonderfully reliable NetBSD/VAX has
> been, the disk on my MicroVAX II (nee a VAXstation) started singing at me.
> It's the same song it sings when it's powered up.  I got this from syslog:
> 
>     Nov  3 14:20:52 hephaistos /netbsd: ra0: not mounted/spun down
>     Nov  3 14:20:57 hephaistos last message repeated 8 times
>     Nov  3 14:20:57 hephaistos /netbsd: ra0: size 311200 sectors
> 
> I hope it's not an oracle of impending platter death.
> 
I think that happens when the disk has to recalibrate often and
the system loses control over it.

-- Ragge