On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:50:01PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
>>> I wonder what would happen if I just yanked the power plug out of a
>>> running drive. They advise against it!
>>
>> You would test the RAID alright, but you might send the hard drive
>> heads crashing into the surface, requiring another disk.
>
> I thought drives were designed so that killing the power autoparked the
> heads. When the power goes out, drives always seem to be fine.
Indeed. But "designed to" just means "increases the odds" 8^)
florin
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