Catatonic hard drive

[David Kramer]

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote, On 01/17/2005 08:56 PM:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:19:34PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> 
>>So I was sitting by my SuSE 9.0 server today checking my mail, and every 
>>few minutes or so I kept hearing that sound of the hard drive spinning up.
>>
>>There are two possibilities, as I see it.  Either my hard drive is about to 
>>go, or it's configured to sleep when it shouldn't (being a server that's on 
>>24/7).  Of course we all know that the more painful option is likely to be 
>>the correct one, so I'm off to by a hard drive while my system is backing 
>>up to my external USB drive.
>>
>>- Am I missing any possibilities?
> 
> 
> One. You could be hearing a thermal recalibration. Have you been
> running smartmontools to check the status of the drive?

No!  I thought I had that running.  I do now, and set to email both me and my 
cellphone on error.  Thanks.

I do check the temperature periodically with mbmon, but that's not really a 
good indicator of hard drive temp (not that I know what the three three 
temperatured returned by mbmon really mean anyway).


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