[ltp] Clicking hard disk sound

[Mark Beierl]

I do get the occasional clicking sound as flushd syncs the disks.  It
could just be the difference between the way FAT and e2fs filesystems are
layed out on the disk that makes it sound dissimilar between the two OSs.

But just to be sure, check /var/log/messages and make sure there are no
lines about drive seek errors or any such.  Examples:

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=49000/0/252,
sector=8446688
hda: dma_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, CHS=49000/0/253,
sector=8446704
ide0: reset: success

If there are, backup what you can now and get a replacement HD, cos it's
on its way down.

Regards,
Mark Beierl

"Dr. Edmund Weitz" wrote:

> One more thing:
>
> >From time to time I hear a clicking sound from my hard disk while I'm
> working with Linux. If I had to guess I'd say it sounds as if the
> head tries to go beneath the edge of the disk. I'm not an expert with
> these things, though.
>
> I still have to spent about half of my time in W2k due to my work and
> I never heard this sound with this OS.
>
> Has anybody else observed this behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
> Edi.
>
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