hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve

[William Wager]

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 at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Roberts
Sent: 31 July 2005 15:34
To: freebsd-hardware at 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!


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