[mythtv-users] Booohooohoooo......

[Francesco Peeters]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> 2008/7/12 Francesco Peeters <francesco at fampeeters.com>:
>   
>> My USB harddisk on which my MythTV FE/BE lives died... The drive won't
>> spin up anymore, and I currently don't have time to rebuilt on a new
>> device, and I really don't want to either, because I meant to make that
>> machine a net-boot machine...  *rolls eyes*
>>
>> Why does shit like that always happen at the most inconvenient times...
>>
>> Only good bit is that this drive is less than 2 years old, so I will at
>> least get a new one from WD!...
>>     
>
> Sorry to hear about the failure. I often wonder whether external
> drives have adequate cooling and ventilation, especially when they are
> used heavily. Do/did you monitor your HDD temps via SMART? Was the
> external drive purchased as a single unit (drive plus enclosure) or
> did you purchase the two separately?
>
>   

I wondered too, but it was a complete unit by WD, so I assumed they had 
done at least some testing on that!  ;-)

I did not continuously monitor the temps, but whenever I did, they 
weren't outlandish high (iirc approx 45-47°C) though...

All it does now is make short buzz sounds (approx .5 secs every 2 secs), 
which sounds like it tries to spin up, but somethings keeping it from 
doing so...

Even allowing it to cool down for a day didn't help... Maybe I'll put it 
in a bag and toss it in the freezer for a few hours to see if that makes 
a bit of a difference...

-- 
F Peeters
  PC-Chips M863G Geode - NVidia 440 - Hauppauge PVR250
  Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) - XFCE - MythTV 0.20 - Xine
  Panasonic NV-VHD1 VCR/DVD player case modded to fit it all in...