Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:57:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk clicking... (Was: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and suspend-to-disk) Message-ID: <200107142057.f6EKvpa01246@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:59:47 PDT." <20010714125947.A7983@bsdguru.com>
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> 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.
> 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.
--
... 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]
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