hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve

[Erich Dollansky]

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