[Linux-users] Saga of the mail server

[James McDonald]

Ben Duncan wrote:
> Hmmm, or maybe a rift in the time / space continuum ?
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> (as I duck back into the COBOL program I have been working on ).
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> James McDonald wrote:
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>> David Bandel wrote:
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>> I'm sure you would have Filtered &UPS'd power but is there any other 
>> environmental issues that could case these failures? (e.g. Extreme 
>> RF/Magnetic interference)
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Yes I'm familiar with Temporal Distortion causing these sorts of things. 
It's either that or Sun Spot activity or the dreaded clock speed error.

But seriously. I had 2 disks blow in my Dell servers (PE750 & PE 1850) 
on different sites within a week or two. So Dells can do harddrives 
especially on boxes that are heavily used. These were SCSI drives which 
had been on continually for a year or more.

Perhaps your other boxen are all getting long in the tooth and hitting 
their mechanical limits???

Harddisks as you all know are spinning platters with little mechanical 
arms waving over them at insane speeds. They wear out...