Drive constantly grinding ...

[Robert G. Brown]

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, There can be only one. wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> 
> I don't know if this has anything to do with the SCSI Controller or
> what,
> but I recently put in a third hard drive -- a Seagate Baracuda -- and it
> every 5 seconds or so goes "click-click", like it's doing a drive read,
> but always the same noise ... "click-click".  My old drives didn't do
> this,
> and this happened even before I was using the drive (ie, when it was
> sitting
> unpartitioned in my powered-up case).
> 
> It's probably not a big deal, but it's annoying.  It's on the Ultrawide
> channel of my Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter sharing with a
> couple of IBM drives.  If anyone out there knows what's going on, give
> me
> a email please ... if not, like I said, it's probably not a big deal. 
> I'll
> just slowly go insane ... click-click, click-click .... ;-)

I have a drive or two that does the same thing.  Never have figured out
if it was the drive or linux, but a Barracuda on a 2940 UW clicks every
five seconds on what sounds like a seek.  Altering update doesn't seem
to matter.

    rgb

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