On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:18 AM, jb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I very often hear this metallic (mechanical) clicking from my hard disk > when > it is active. I experience this behavior under FreeBSD only (not other > OSs). > Is there any way to figure out what it means ? > Any other tools, except SMART below, to try ? What to look for ? > > # /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/ada0 > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always > - > 779337 >
Likely the noise you are hearing roughly corresponds to Load_Cycle_Count. Yours is quite high. You may be able to use sysutils/ataidle to disable the parking like so: ataidle -P 0 /dev/ada0 Not entirely sure if this works on the ada driver, so if not you might want to ask on freebsd-stable@ or boot up in a Live CD of Linux and use the tools there. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
