[ltp] Clicking hard disk sound

[D. Sen]

About a month ago, my disk started "clicking" violently. I was sure it was
on its way out. However, the clicking stopped after I found and subsequently
reparied errors in the filesystem (reiserfs). If you are using reiserfs,
I recommend using 'reiserfsck' to check and repair your filesystems
(especially if you are using the early 2.4.x kernels).

DS
Mark Beierl wrote:

> 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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