Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:03:16 GMT From: "Ben Lovett" <blovett@bsdguru.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk clicking... (Was: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and suspend-to-disk) Message-ID: <20010714210316.88D999BFE@the.oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <200107142057.f6EKvpa01246@mass.dis.org> References: <200107142057.f6EKvpa01246@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith writes: >> Well.. I guess that I am observing this behavior on my replacement disk, >> I'll live with it. Unless I hear different. > > I've been living with it for nearly two years now, actually. Yes, I remember Greg Lehey commenting about this.. > >> On a sort of side note.. I was discussing this issue with my boss >> yesterday, and he was explaining to me that when hard drives are >> manufactured, because of the nature of the mass-production, the platters >> will never turn out without flaws, and thus will have some bad sectors. > > If that was the case, most of my disk would be bad sectors. 8) > > I can't say you should be happy about it, but experimental evidence > suggests you can probably just ignore it. > Well.. I'll just be sure to do constant backups to tape. I'm starting to just want to know *why* the disk clicks.. Not if its a hint that the disk may be dying (tho that is still a concern ;) Thanks for the reassurance. -ben > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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