Is it a seagate? On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:02 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.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 > > :-) :-) > > >