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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