From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 4 01:14:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6C116A41F for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:14:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dcp1990@neptune.atopia.net) Received: from neptune.atopia.net (neptune.atopia.net [209.128.231.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3813043D45 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:14:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dcp1990@neptune.atopia.net) Received: by neptune.atopia.net (Postfix, from userid 1034) id 630016113; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:14:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:14:39 -0400 From: Dan Ponte To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050804011439.GA66267@neptune.atopia.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <20050801170723.GA90601@neptune.atopia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Subject: Re: hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 01:14:40 -0000 On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:01:52PM -0400, Michael Roberts was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > hi, > > thanks for all your responses. i've heard similar things, and am getting a > replacement drive sent out from WD. however, a few interesting things: > > 1) the frequency of the tic/toc noises (really they sound like "toc - tic" > ..) decreases when i disable acpi. i should have done this before, of > course.... I haven't tried switching to apm. but w/o acpi, performance is > pretty good, and i don't get the delays with tab-completion. > > 2) i've run every hardware tester i could get my hands on, and none of them > find any bad sectors/block/anything. the drive always checks out. > > this is all making me think that i've just got my system configured wrong. > like maybe i need some special device in my kernel for this particular > drive? or maybe i need to mess with acpi settings to get things > streamlined? > > any suggestions along these lines? or should i just trash the thing... > > thx again. > Well, this drive is probably 4 or 5 years old by now, and I'm pretty sure it's been clicking along since I got it. ACPI would make sense; maybe the BIOS or something is trying to turn off the drive motor, but the OS needs to use it, so it turns back on. This is rather farfetched, though, as it happens usually during load. I have ACPI enabled, but dmesg tells me that my BIOS is blacklisted, so I doubt it's really enabled. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar R. Fiedler