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Re: [opensuse] Micro pauses, or CPU spikes?
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:41:12 -0700
- Message-id: <200704182041.12630.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:27, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 04:15, Clayton wrote:
> ...
>
> > I'm assuming the drive is unrecoverable (ie it's not worth risking
> > my data to try and run the Maxtor tools on it and "repair" the
> > drive)... so it's up for replacement in the next week or so.
>
> You may try to slow down the drive.
> I got one that was about to fail, but decreasing the speed, using
> Maxtor utilities, from 66 to 33 helped and it still runs.
I think the only hypothesis supported by this observation is something
related to the electronics. Possibly a damaged cable or out-of-spec bus
driver circuits on the mainboard or in the disk drive.
> --
> Regards, Rajko.
Randall Schulz
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> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 04:15, Clayton wrote:
> ...
>
> > I'm assuming the drive is unrecoverable (ie it's not worth risking
> > my data to try and run the Maxtor tools on it and "repair" the
> > drive)... so it's up for replacement in the next week or so.
>
> You may try to slow down the drive.
> I got one that was about to fail, but decreasing the speed, using
> Maxtor utilities, from 66 to 33 helped and it still runs.
I think the only hypothesis supported by this observation is something
related to the electronics. Possibly a damaged cable or out-of-spec bus
driver circuits on the mainboard or in the disk drive.
> --
> Regards, Rajko.
Randall Schulz
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