Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:18:57 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Michael Roberts <tpen0010@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve Message-ID: <42EE2141.608@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <BAY105-F20D53110A581298F94DE72C1C00@phx.gbl> References: <BAY105-F20D53110A581298F94DE72C1C00@phx.gbl>
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Hi, Michael Roberts wrote: > > the tic-toc noise is a little melodic (kinda like vibes) if that > matters... which it probably doesn't... > It is normally the last tune of a hard disk. > > this tic/toc noise only occurs occasionally when i run windows on the > other partition of the drive. it causes the same delay there, but like > i said it only occurs once in a blue moon on the windows side, and is > therefore tolerable. on the freebsd side, it happens all the time. > It looks like the bad sectors are not in the Windows partition but in the FreeBSD's. I only have had once a hard disk which made 5 more years after some kind of noise started. Erich
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