[Wolves] New install options

[Kevanf1]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 20:44:33 +0000, Andy Wootton
<andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Mark Ellse wrote:
> 
> >
> > One thing that is worth trying is to heat up the hard disk gently -
> > putting on a warm radiator or similar - until it is at its normal
> > operating temperature. It's the heating and cooling that generaly
> > cause electronic or mechanical failure, switching them on or off. The
> > small amount of movement with heating up can free a motor that is
> > reluctant to start.
> >
> > Is the drive spinning up to speed - can you hear it with an ear to the
> > case? Sometimes you can get a reluctant hard disk to get going by
> > rotating it sharply about an axis through the centre of the disk with
> > the power on, with and without the heating up described.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> The similarity to my old central heating pump is quite uncanny.
> 
> Mark is absolutely right though. I used to look after a VAX cluster with
> about 20 disks. It ran perfectly for years then everything had to be
> shut down for a weekend for some electrical work to take place. When the
> power came back on, 3 of the disks had seized up. I think the enineer
> said that the bearings wear unevenly and flats develop. As long as they
> keep moving they are fine but if they stop they need an input of
> external energy to get them moving again. On that occasion I think the
> method of last resource for at least one of the disks was a hammer.
> These disks were about fifteen inches in diameter though.
> 
> Woo
> 
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Sounds like old Winchesters?  My old boss told me about them.  I'm not
speaking from experience they are a bit before my earliest forays into
computing.

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