I have seen messages in my log for a drive that was making strange clicking noises. I forget what the messages said, but they were scary enough for me to know that the filesystem was deteriorating. I quickly decommissioned that machine (it was my 486 web/print server) and migrated everything over to my 166, before the drive actually failed, so I don't know what the terminal symptoms would have been.
Copy everything that you need off that drive FAST. Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES President, C*O www.sysupport.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Rauschenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 5:01 PM Subject: Need help fast > > > > One of 4 IDE drives in my system is making strange noises every 5 to 20 > minutes. It sounds like its seeking all the way across the disk and hitting > the actuator stops *hard*. Is this an event that can be seen in > /var/log/messages (or anywhere else) ? Any help would appreciated. > I'd like to know what's going on but at least I need to know which drive it > it. > > I heard this before and soon the drive quit spinning. (Made it easy to know > which one had the problem ;-) > > TIA > > TomR > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
