Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:52:23 -0500 From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <metcalf@snet.net> To: <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: "FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org>, "Jeffrey M Metcalf" <Jeffrey_M._Metcalf@ccmail.bms.com> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD damage hardware? Message-ID: <199703030251.VAA12237@daisy.snet.net>
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Thank You for the reply, I was wondering if you might entertain my idea for the moment. I mentioned that the hard drive that makes noise is wd1 on the wdc0. It is partitioned with DOS on the first part and FreeBSD on the second part. My primary drive wd0 on wcd0 does not make the noise, nor does wd1 when I access its DOS partition from DOS. Could the problem lie in the way I have partitioned the drive? Perhaps the DOS/FreeBSD partition is split across a cylinder. Maybe I should try and partition it so that the final sector of the DOS partition is the last sector of a cylinder and the first partition of the FreeBSD partition is the first sector of the next cylinder. Also, am I issuing the correct mount command? mount -rw -t ufs /dev/wd1s2 /mnt should mount the second (FreeBSD) partion of drive wd1 at mount-point /mnt, correct? Should I try replacing /dev/wd1s2 with /dev/rwd1s2? That is mount it as a raw device rather than a block device? Any practical suggestions made in an attemp to preserve the life of my hard drive would be appreciated. Thank You, JM ----- Jeffrey M. Metcalf metcalf@snet.net http://ruddles.stat.uconn.edu/~jeff ---------- > From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD damage hardware? > Date: Saturday, March 01, 1997 4:14 PM > > "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <Jeffrey_M._Metcalf@ccMail.bms.com> wrote: > > > I periodically hear a relatively loud and unhealthy sounding click > > (or it may be described as a scratch) coming from the drive. This > > sound does not occur on the primary hard drive on wd1 where I > > normally would run FreeBSD. > > That's definately a bad sound. I've also heard it from SCSI drives > (no, they didn't run FreeBSD but HP-UX :), and they were simply dead > afterwards. > > > I had previously had a > > refurbished hard drive containing the /dev/wd1s2 partition, but it > > died very quicky (fortunately for me within the short warranty > > period). That drive made the same scratching noises I hear now. > > Maybe your controller misbehaves? Cabling problem? OTOH, these > drives are `intelligent' enough to catch out-of-bound accesses etc., > so it's hard to imagine either. > > One thing that comes to mind: noisy powersupplies aren't something > unusual in the PC world. For sure, they can disturb almost any kind > of hardware. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > >
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