hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve

[Marco Gonçalves]

Hello

1 - backups are good
2 - try installing /ports/sysutils/smartmontools and enable SMART on BIOS to
check out the disk

Best regards,
Marco Gonçalves

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Roberts" <tpen0010 at hotmail.com>
To: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 3:33 PM
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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