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Howdy, |
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I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100. |
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Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very |
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basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click |
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or a metallic type sound. It sounds like the heads are doing random |
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reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily. Thing is, |
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there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop. All the |
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drives should be basically idle. I even went to single user mode to be |
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sure nothing in KDE was doing some index thingy or something. Still, |
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nothing showed that there should be any drive activity, including the |
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hard drive light on the case. |
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Also, I do not know WHICH drive is making this noise yet. I have four |
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in there running and they are physically mounted close together. I'm |
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not sure I would know which one it is even if I take the side off the |
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case. I just know that it is making this odd noise. Here is some info |
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from hdparm: |
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root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdd |
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/dev/sdd: |
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Model=ST3000DM001-1ER166, FwRev=CC25, SerialNo=Z501R198 |
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Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 |
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AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: Reserved: ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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root@fireball / # |
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That's the new drive up above. Old drive that is basically the same |
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drive, different batch I would assume, is below. |
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root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdc |
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/dev/sdc: |
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Model=ST3000DM001-1CH166, FwRev=CC29, SerialNo=W1F4C31Q |
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Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } |
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RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 |
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BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 |
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CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168 |
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} |
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PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 |
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DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 |
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UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 |
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AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled |
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Drive conforms to: Reserved: ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7 |
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* signifies the current active mode |
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root@fireball / # |
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The last SMART test I ran showed no problems but I have a fresh one |
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running as I type on all drives. Will update if it shows anything. |
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Thoughts? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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