-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-02-22 at 14:44 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
One thing I've noticed is that as drives get faster (especially head positioning speed), mounting them properly seems to be more important. If the drive can physically vibrate within its mounting, it appears that ordinary head motion can lead to a head crash when the drive as a whole begins to move in response to the head be repositioned. My hunch is that sometimes head activity pattern creates a resonance with the drive as a whole and the magnitude of the drive's motions (in its ill-fitting mount) become sufficient to cause a head crash, or at least to increase the probability of one significantly.
The vibration you mention is documented, but as causing worse access times. But I don't remember where I read it... could be at Seagate's site. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF3i9DtTMYHG2NR9URAp/NAKCJiysPFBdP/IVda94VQqWfnYJvmgCgkFiJ ZWxM0vdIGP9VEiUof/aFI4I= =ou6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org