Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

[Ian Bloss]

Is it a seagate?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:02 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

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