[ale] Box Starting to Die?

[Jeff Hubbs]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn C. Lasher Jr. [mailto:critter at wizvax.net]
> My experience is that if you take a machine with a HDD that has been
> running mostly nonstop and you prepare to move it, you should bring it
> back up as fast as humanly possible to avoid damaging the 
> HDD.  The drive
> gets 'used' to running, and stopping it will lead to problems in the
> bearings.  These difficulties could modulate the rotation of 
> the platters
> enough to mess up your data from time to time.

I don't doubt what you're saying at all, and in this case, circumstances
prevented me from getting the machine running quickly.  It was down for
about a day. 

My real question, though, is whether or not the behavior I was seeing and
the oopses, etc. in var/log/messages were consistent with or indicative of
incipient drive failure.

- Jeff
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