Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:27:06 +0100 From: "William Wager" <will@lawcommunications.co.uk> To: "'Michael Roberts'" <tpen0010@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve Message-ID: <auto-000117941571@atlas.net.uk> In-Reply-To: <BAY105-F20D53110A581298F94DE72C1C00@phx.gbl>
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Hi, In my experience this normally means the hard drive is crying for help and is having a slow painful death. I would back-up any important data right away (but you do this already right?) and start thinking about replacing the drive. You can always try some HDD diag apps to see if it's reporting any problems. Regards, William -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Roberts Sent: 31 July 2005 15:34 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve hi, i'm encountering something funny in a hard drive i just installed. issue is: the hard drive makes clicking noises sometimes when the system is trying to access the drive, and when that happens, there is a momentary (half or quarter second) pause in whatever the computer was trying to do. e.g., if i type in a partial path in a terminal, then try to tab-complete it, i hear a little tic-toc, accompanied by a pause, before the completed path shows up in the terminal. the tic-toc noise is a little melodic (kinda like vibes) if that matters... which it probably doesn't... my info: drive: western digital wd800ve. i think this is an eide drive. running 7.0-current on a dell inspiron 8600 laptop. previously running 5.4-stable, and upgraded to see if it would fix the problem, which it didn't. 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. anyone know what i should do? any and all help would be appreciated. thanks! _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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