[GLLUG] Dying Hard Drives

[James Zaldivar]

There's NO way that a magnetic field is responsible.  A magnet big &
strong enough to do that kind of thing from any kind of distance would
be hard to miss, as it would have moved your fridge by now.  Silverware
and keys would be flying across the room...

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu
[mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu] On Behalf Of impact
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:51 PM
To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Subject: [GLLUG] Dying Hard Drives


Alright, maybe I'm being paranoid, but I wanted to hear if you guys had 
any input on this...

Recently, many of my hard drives have started dying.  First it was my 
laptop making bad scratching/clicking noises, then I put my extra 20gb 
in a computer for some testing of a new cooling system, and it started 
doing an off-rhythm whirr noise (a bad noise).

I thought this was odd because it is a brand new drive that I got back 
from an RMA about a year ago and never used...

Then, I left for the weekend, leaving my main comp on (as usual for 
ssh/vnc access), and when I came back, it was dead.  I tried to turn it 
back on, and BIOS gave a bunch of errors about 2 of the 3 hard drives.  
These could possibly be due to heat (3 drives with about 5mm between 
them), but its odd it started all of a sudden...

Then theres my server, no real problems yet, but every time I reboot it,

I have to hit F1 to get through BIOS because it gives a "Incompatable 
Slave Drive" (its the only drive attached). 

So again, maybe its me being paranoid, but these drives all started 
failing within about a week of each other.  Is there any chance there 
could be some sort of strong magnetic field around my room someplace?  
Is there anything else it could be?

-Dan Sherman
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