Hitachi 1 TB Hard Drive

[oshunluvr]

Well guess what? I went out of town for two weeks and left my PC shut down. Tonight I sparked it up and the old Hitachi died! I guess it felt us posting about it and gave up the ghost, LOL!

[GreyGeek]

Well guess what? I went out of town for two weeks and left my PC shut down. Tonight I sparked it up and the old Hitachi died! I guess it felt us posting about it and gave up the ghost, LOL!

A leaky capacitor finally leaked its all?

[jlittle]

oshunluvr's post about the old drive has reminded me that I left a loose end or two here.

Does systemd honour the old /etc/rc.local file? I'll have to try it out.

It does, one just has to make /etc/rc.local executable, and start it with a valid script shebang, such as #!/bin/bash; neither of which I did at first.

But systemd has better mechanisms. To spin down my drives on resuming from sleep, I dropped a script in /lib/systemd/system-sleep:

#!/bin/bash
# john spin down my backup and archive drives, they drone and vibrate
# oppressively

case $1 in
post)
    # output goes to the journal...
    echo spinning down sda
    /sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda
    echo spinning down sdb
    /sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdb
    ;;
esac

and made it executable.

[oshunluvr]

A leaky capacitor finally leaked its all?

I pulled it this morning because the system kept trying to start up the drive and it was bogging my system down. The production date on the label was "Sept-2008" so I'd say I got more than my money's worth out of this one!

[GreyGeek]

oshunluvr's post about the old drive has reminded me that I left a loose end or two here.

It does, one just has to make /etc/rc.local executable, and start it with a valid script shebang, such as #!/bin/bash; neither of which I did at first.

But systemd has better mechanisms. To spin down my drives on resuming from sleep, I dropped a script in /lib/systemd/system-sleep:

#!/bin/bash
# john spin down my backup and archive drives, they drone and vibrate
# oppressively

case $1 in
post)
    # output goes to the journal...
    echo spinning down sda
    /sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda
    echo spinning down sdb
    /sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdb
    ;;
esac

and made it executable.

Thanks for posting that delicious tidbit!