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From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: Re: hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve
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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