greg@johnny.cs.unlv.edu (Greg Wohletz) (06/05/91)
>there is a known problem that can cause >internal disks in Sun workstations to die after being turned off! The >multimedia/graphics group has been bitten twice by this in one week. > >The problem has to due with the internal lubricant in the drive drying >out. When the disk is turned off, it can't be started again. > >If you've experienced the aforementioned problem, I'd appreciate hearing >from you. It's always wise to have good reasons for nuking your local Sun >office. Thanks, in advance, for your assistance. Yes, we have had no less than 5 different drives fail in this manner. We have found that if you turn the machine off and leave it alone for a week or so, the drives sometimes start working again! Why just last weekend our building had a scheduled power outage that resulted in another dead drive. We heard a rumor that the failure had something to do with high humidity... Since we have around 35 sparcstation 1s with these stupid drives in them we are VERY interested in finding a solution to this problem. --Greg
bhaynes@gatech.edu (Brad Haynes) (06/28/91)
In article <2923@brchh104.bnr.ca> greg@johnny.cs.unlv.edu (Greg Wohletz) writes: >>there is a known problem that can cause >>internal disks in Sun workstations to die after being turned off! The >>multimedia/graphics group has been bitten twice by this in one week. >> >>The problem has to due with the internal lubricant in the drive drying >>out. When the disk is turned off, it can't be started again. >> >>If you've experienced the aforementioned problem, I'd appreciate hearing >>from you. It's always wise to have good reasons for nuking your local Sun >>office. Thanks, in advance, for your assistance. Four of our 4/60's have had problems something like this. When the machine is powered off/on the drive almost always hangs. The system recognizes the drive but can use it. format will hang when it tries to "probe for disks". Usually whacking the machine on the side and powering it off for a few minutes will bring it back to life. I'd be interested in hearing anything you find out. -- Brad +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Brad Haynes | AT&T Tridom |