On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:54:11 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:01:26AM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > In earlier days this was the "click of death". Maybe it would be a > > good idea to look at the smart values ... and you sure have a > > backup, don't you? > > Against hardware failures, yes. A pure redundancy RAID. > Against other failures, I occasionaly use rdiffbackup. I recommend you get a good, clean backup of that thing right now, and keep it backed up to within a couple days or the amount of work you can afford to lose. Sounds to me like something is on its way out. The fact that you upgraded just prior to this symptom's appearance casts an accusing finger at the upgrade, and that certainly should be investigated. But just in case it's a coincidence, you should do what everyone else said about hardware diagnostics. And I'd like to add one further diagnostic... Remove the cover from the machine and start wiggling wires, hard. Does it seem like you can trigger the click by moving the wires? If so, move ever fewer wires til you get one wire or one cable that seems to trigger it. I had an intermittent click several years ago that turned out to be a defective hard disk power connector. SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
