Re: It keeps going and going

["dreamwvr_(_at_)_dreamwvr_(_dot_)_com" <dreamwvr_(_at_)_dreamwvr_(_dot_)_com>]

helo,
  
 Did it sound like a couple of empty coke cans dangling off the 
rear of a car? ;-)) if it did take a look inside. You Will see
that the arms have spun off the platters:-)) Recall having sweaty
fingers when that happened. Since i had not backed up a lot of 
my work on that station. But the happy ending was that all ended
well.  The hard drive cratered ooh.. about 30 seconds after i 
had pulled everything that mattered off:-] 
(i could actually hear the platters spinning off as they got the
info for the last time.) AFAIK this behaviour is identical on all
BSDs. Something to do with the fs;->

Best Regards,
dreamwvr_(_at_)_dreamwvr_(_dot_)_com

> > A neato experience here - the hard disk on my OpenBSD 2.9 firewall just
> > gave up.  It was grinding bad and finally quit spinning.  As I write
> > this, it's still passing traffic to my workstation at 200kB/s.  Who
> > knows how long it'll last, but if anyone is interested I'll let them
> > know.
> 
> Yep.. a friend had the same thing happen to his OpenBSD firewall. IIRC,
> the thing kept forwarding traffic for a whole month, at which point the
> power had gone out, or something.
> 
> ---
> Aaron Campbell (aaron_(_at_)_monkey_(_dot_)_org || aaron_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org)
> http://www.monkey.org/~aaron