9/2: Dead hard drive

Count Zero · 09-03-2001, 01:43 PM

I also lost a quantum SCSI hard drive once... 6 gigs. 3 years ago, I think. Simply died on me.

I left something compiling on my machine, and went to get some coffee. When I came back, the compiler had frozen. The mouse still worked, but when I tried to open another shell, everything just stopped. Since I was using gnu/linux, it could only have been a hardware defect. The message from the SCSI controller during boot only confirmed that.

When I opened the drive later on, I found one of the heads dangling from its support... Pretty lame.

09-03-2001, 01:43 PM	#3
Count Zero Colloquialist Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 75	I also lost a quantum SCSI hard drive once... 6 gigs. 3 years ago, I think. Simply died on me. I left something compiling on my machine, and went to get some coffee. When I came back, the compiler had frozen. The mouse still worked, but when I tried to open another shell, everything just stopped. Since I was using gnu/linux, it could only have been a hardware defect. The message from the SCSI controller during boot only confirmed that. When I opened the drive later on, I found one of the heads dangling from its support... Pretty lame.

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