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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!panix!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!swrinde!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Seagate ST3491 problem Date: 6 Feb 1995 03:34:12 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3h45bk$8u@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <3g572n$i4k@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] A.M. Zanker (A.M.Zanker@ncl.ac.uk) wrote: : 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, Probably nothing to do with your problem, but I don't think it's a good idea to have swap at the start of a FreeBSD partition. I tried this with 1.1.5.1 and it kept eating my disklabel when the machine swapped. From what I can make out, newfs leaves room for labels. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....