From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: ide drive dying?
To: ed.sweetman@WMICH.EDU (Ed Sweetman)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 21:11:53 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3D7BA4BC.5050904@wmich.edu> from "Ed Sweetman" at Sep 08, 2002 03:27:56 PM
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> Keep your drive cool and you can expect to keep it around for a very 
> long time.

In a large tower case, it is worth while to leave a drive bay free between disks, instead of using them sequentially, like this:

    ------             ------
    |****|             |****|
    ------             ------
    |    |             |****|
    ------             ------
    |****|             |****|
    ------  instead of ------
    |    |             |    |
    ------             ------
    |****|             |    |
    ------             ------
    |    |             |    |
    ------             ------

Also, if you get a disk that suddenly doesn't spin up, don't assume that the motor has died - you can sometimes bring them back to life by connecting power to them, and giving them a very sharp angular jolt in the plane of the platters - the effect is called static friction, (A.K.A. stiction)

John.
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