Re: leaving computer on 24/7
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:05:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:53, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:31:15PM -0600, Nathan E Norman (nnorman@incanus.net) wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:12:14PM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Ah, the old "whack the drive case with a screwdriver handle" trick :-)
> >
> > How brutal!
> >
> > No, I pull the drives, give them a bunch of rapid half-spins about the
> > major platter axis, and try powering them up. Once they spin up, I let
> > them run for a few minutes, then put them back on their rails in the
> > case. Usually they'll spin up again immediately after.
>
> Gak! That could get a bit time-consuming if your SAN has a dozen TB.
> (With 75GB disks, that would be 160 spindles...)
You could use the agitator drive out of a top-loading washing machine
to build a gizmo that makes the entire chassis do the twist (just
leave plenty of slack in the cables).
Pigeon
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