Michael Roberts wrote: > 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.
I once had a IBM hard drive which made such a noise right from the beginning. According to the support people this was "normal" with that series of drives. However, I finally persuaded my supplier to have this drive replaced with one from another vendor. I couldn't have a drive in my PC which brings me cold sweat every day. As the others I recommend smartmontools and perhaps do a check with some "drive fitness test" tools from WD. Markus _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
