Re: [LUG] ide raid woes

[danbee <danbee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Crook wrote:

> I've seen it happen twice where multiple drives have failed within a
> RAID5 array.  Servers can run for years whilst all the drives are
> spinning constantly.  Stopping them after x years and expecting them to
> spin up again is a different matter.
>
> The common engineering solution to this problem seems to a repeated
> "tapping" with a hammer, to shock the disk back into life.  I've seen
> this work on occasion but never documented as an approved fix.
>  
:o

this reminds me of a 'fix' for the old acorn a3000 machines we had at 
school.  occasionally the memory would come slightly loose and the 
machine would fail.  a swift fist on the top was all that was required 
to 'fix' it...

- danbee



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