From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 14 14: 3:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from chopin.n2.net (chopin.n2.net [207.113.132.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A47A37B401; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blovett@oneinsane.net) Received: from the.oneinsane.net (postfix@the.oneinsane.net [66.42.61.25]) by chopin.n2.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6EL3HR13765; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by the.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1011) id 88D999BFE; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:03:16 -0700 (PDT) References: <200107142057.f6EKvpa01246@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: <200107142057.f6EKvpa01246@mass.dis.org> From: "Ben Lovett" To: Mike Smith Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk clicking... (Was: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and suspend-to-disk) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:03:16 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010714210316.88D999BFE@the.oneinsane.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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