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
Hi,
On Thursday 01 March 2012 00:18:03 jb wrote:
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
Hi!
2012/2/29, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com:
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 ?
Some time ago I had a similar problem with an
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:18 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com 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,
Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com writes:
...
I have no idea what causes the noise. What is the machine doing when you hear
it?
Erich
I use it as a desktop.
Mostly web browsing, Firefox, there is always some background activity in
there, like financial data streaming, etc.
Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com writes:
...
# /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/ada0
193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 001 001 000Old_age Always
-
779337
Likely the noise you are hearing roughly corresponds to Load_Cycle_Count.
Yours is quite high.
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes:
...
Dmitry and Adam,
I think your description of excessive heads parking may be very close.
I will try this remedy and will let you know.
jb
OK. Thanks.
jb
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