On 2012年05月19日 03:30, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Same brand?
Yes: IBM Travelstar, but different models/revs/production dates/ages. Symptoms, results were not identical, as far as I can tell. Worked fine since Yggdrasil, RedHat 5& 6, and SuSE 9.0 through OpenSuSE 11.3.
Then maybe they were old and their time had just arrived.
They were made in early 1980's but each had less than 5K hours running time. I doubt many disks can tolerate sustained seek activity for long. Motor drivers are often too small to dissipate the heat produced when the disks are called on to seek 100% of the time over periods of hours, let alone tens of minutes. That's what I suspect happened to one, at least. That one failed. The second is still failing. jd -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org