hi,
thanks for all your responses. i've heard similar things, and am getting a
replacement drive sent out from WD. however, a few interesting things:
1) the frequency of the tic/toc noises (really they sound like "toc - tic"
..) decreases when i disable acpi. i should have done this before, of
course.... I haven't tried switching to apm. but w/o acpi, performance is
pretty good, and i don't get the delays with tab-completion.
2) i've run every hardware tester i could get my hands on, and none of them
find any bad sectors/block/anything. the drive always checks out.
this is all making me think that i've just got my system configured wrong.
like maybe i need some special device in my kernel for this particular
drive? or maybe i need to mess with acpi settings to get things
streamlined?
any suggestions along these lines? or should i just trash the thing...
thx again.
From: Dan Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: hard drive noises -- western digital wd800ve
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:07:23 -0400
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0400, Michael Roberts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:
> 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!
I'd like to chime in here as well. I have a drive that does the exact
same thing, although it is a few years old (a WD200 20GB).
Smartmontools, however, reports nothing out of the ordinary. And the
clicks don't happen as often. They usually only do happen, however,
under heavy disk IO (such as during the daily runs). I really should get
the drive out of there and purchase another, but I'm a tad strapped for
cash as it is. I've seen this happen with quite a few other WD drives,
as well, though haven't observed in detail to the extent that I do now.
-Dan
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