From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 18:28:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B8237B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40509.mail.yahoo.com (web40509.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACF7043E42 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannypansters@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020930012854.82170.qmail@web40509.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [217.121.1.115] by web40509.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:28:54 PDT Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:28:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Danny Pansters Subject: ATA disk "ticking"? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please note: da=scsi, ad=ATA, Ok, I have replaced my power supply, and now my assumingly faulty SCSI drive seems to work again. I have 4 drives in my box, two identical barracuda's da0 and da1 and two IDE WD disks ad0 and ad1. It boots off ad0 now. Currently I have da0 and da1 mounted and tested them by writing the ad root partition to it. Not tested as part of the running OS, only have been mounted to copy some data to its (then) root partition. Worked OK. Because of reocurring problems with the (currently) da1 drive I have replaced my base system with 2 ata drives, which is FreeBSD-4.7-PRE currently and they have everything but the root partion mirrored with vinum (much like I had da0 and da1 vefore). Root partition is pseudo mirrored with dump every night, as was the case with the da0-da1 setup before. I have put these drives in because my (then) ad0 scsi drive seemed to fail then but after power supply replacement they don't seem to. I'm quite certain that the caveat was the power supply. Have now replaced it with an "Antec True Power" thingie. Seems to run well and my scsi drives (which I had mounted and copied some data to) seem to do OK. But the ATA drives (I think) still meke this clicking sound now and again. I think it's resets and I'm not sure if its hardware failure or perhaps the ata driver in this case. They are ATA100 capable drives on a UDMA66 capable controller. And it works on ATA66, it's just these clicks now and then. Any ideas? Frankly it doesn't seem to be "wrong" rather misconfigured, after all the checks I did. Could this be just the driver or should I be worried (again) that my system is not OK (in which case I would trash the mobo and give up on its current hardware... the again all should be alright now) Please reply to danny@ricin.com. Thank you, and best regards. Dan -- Ricin Radio! http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/180/ricin_radio.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message