On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:41:05 +0000 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It > is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted > all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I > have to assume that it is the new drive. > > We have had workmen in the house for over 2 weeks, and there has been > an incredible amount of dust. I cleaned out the inside of the box as > well as I could after the main part of the work was complete, but it > was only at about time that the noise started. I think it is when > writing to swap. > > I suspect that dust has got in where I cannot follow. How likely is > that? Not likely, hard drives are a sealed unit and if dust did get in then it would be a defective drive. I have had two drives go in the last 6 months the way you describe, they just dont make them like they used to. I would see if you could get it replaced. > > I wonder if I should be buying another drive of the same size, then > doing an overnight cp -a to the new drive, then attempting to use > rsync to keep them mirrored, just in case. What do you think? > Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Nov 9 11:20:13 EST 2003 11:20:13 up 12:53, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00 ... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ...
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