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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!warwick!news.ncl.ac.uk!lakeb1.ncl.ac.uk!n20hr From: "A.M. Zanker" <A.M.Zanker@ncl.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Seagate ST3491 problem Date: 25 Jan 1995 09:53:27 GMT Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3g572n$i4k@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lakeb1.ncl.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I've just bought a new 428Mb Seagate ST3491 IDE disk to run FreeBSD 2.0R off. This replaces an old IBM 170MB IDE drive which already had FreeBSD installed on it. I'm slaving the new drive off a Maxtor 540MB drive which is exclusively used by DOS. The problem - for the first 45 minutes or so after switching on the machine, the drive is making a loud mechanical clicking noise every few seconds, often accompanied by an error message in bright white saying something along the lines of "timing out on wd1". There is often a loud grinding noise as well. After about 45 mins or so everything settles down and the system runs very smoothly. The drive is partitioned as 32mb swap (at the beginning of the disk) followed by the rest as root partition. Does this sound like a mechanical fault with the disk or possibly something that the FreeBSD wd driver doesn't like about it? Thanks in advance, Mike -- Mike Zanker | A.M.Zanker@ncl.ac.uk Department of Mathematics and Statistics | University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK | PGP public key available