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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
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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
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Mike Zanker                              | A.M.Zanker@ncl.ac.uk
Department of Mathematics and Statistics |
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK    | PGP public key available