Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:48:23 +0000 From: lu.schreier@t-online.de (Ludwig Schreier) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: About the IBM R40e notebook and its harddrive, making strange sounds. Message-ID: <200403111646.02640.lu.schreier@t-online.de>
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Hi community, it isn't easy to describe and actually it is not a serious problem, but what is the UFS (Unix File System, FFS even?) doing every few minutes? My harddrive (I believe its a IBM harddrive, since the whole notebook is IBM) makes strange sounds every 1-2 minutes if there is _no_ great load or system activity. Don't laugh, but something like: "dack, dack." A frequent routine check ... ? I have read a bit about how harddrives work and what's in them, because I am interessted in such things and what exactly is the reading header doing ? If the harddrive is driven by NTFS i.e., no sounds will occure. So the question is - because no major errors of hardware occured yet - does this mean something to my harddrive or is it just how UFS is working with it? Thanks for help on this! :) -- Ludwig Schreier lu.schreier@t-online.de GnuPG KeyID: 0x024A112A
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