Re: Quantum Fireball EIDE uncooperative
Jason,
I have Seagate and Quantum scsi disks, ~1G each. One of them, I'm pretty sure
it's the Quantum, spins up then down again during disk/scsi identification. I
don't consider it defective--I'm assuming that the driver is exercising
capabilities that the disk has. It spins up again a bit later and stays
spinning.
Some of my disks also get pretty hot but I've often run them for weeks at a
time. The times I noticed what I considered to be *hot* I'd been running without
the cover on my box so I figured proper air flow wasn't being observed. I've
seen the same disks spin continiously for hundreds of days in Sun
workstations.
-emk
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:02 -0700
> From: Dan Hugo <dhugo@reallycool.com>
> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball EIDE uncooperative
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
> >
> > > I should point out that during boot, the hard drive spins up, green
> > > light looking normal, then spins down with the green light blinking
> > > slowly and non-stop. I am not familiar enough with hard drive fails to
> > > know exactly what this means.
> >
> > I've seen things like this on older SCSI disks, the disk thinks something
> > is wrong enough for it to abort it's powerup. If you went out of it's
> > rated heat range then your toast, otherwise I'd phone up quantum and hope
> > it's on warrenty.
>
> I got is a few months ago... less than 6. The thing is, it spins up
> later...
>
> > If your PC got hot enought to cause the disk to have problems I'd worry
> > about other components too.. Probably took a year off it's life!
> >
> > I know my 2G fireball doesn't get very hot while running..
>
> I have a 3.2G, if that is useful. The rest of the system was fine (ie
> ran off the rescue disk, and was not particularly warm to the touch
> anywhere, and the power supply was also pretty cool), and the machine
> had been up on other such hot days... I just happened to check the drive
> thinking heat might be the problem. I guess "HOT" should be taken as a
> relative term... I mean, I touched a bare powerpc running at 300 MHz,
> and that was much hotter. Let's say the drive was very warm, but still
> spun up on my next attempt to boot (then spun down again with the
> blinking green light).
>
> Drive spin-up delay out-of-whack at boot time?
>
> Any other guesses?
>
>
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