On 4/29/2014 6:13 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> The drive isn't failing, but has failed. Replace it.
>
> I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but
> then learnt their drive division was bought by Seagate (which
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> The drive isn't failing, but has failed. Replace it.
I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but
then learnt their drive division was bought by Seagate (which also
bought Maxtor, the brand of the oldest drive on
On 4/29/2014 1:20 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> Reviving this thread since i tried turning the machine on again (and
> amybe another thread will bump this one).
>
> And, again (well i wasn't expecting it to go away), as soon as the
> machine starts - right after POST, even before GRUB - the drive st
Reviving this thread since i tried turning the machine on again (and
amybe another thread will bump this one).
And, again (well i wasn't expecting it to go away), as soon as the
machine starts - right after POST, even before GRUB - the drive starts
making "reading noise" (like when an antivirus is
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Stefan Monnier
wrote:
>> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
>> This will show you if a drive does spin up and down.
>
> Start_Stop_Count should indeed tell you how many t
> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
> This will show you if a drive does spin up and down.
Start_Stop_Count should indeed tell you how many times the disk spun
up&down.
OTOH Load_Cycle_Count indicates s
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Hi
I was in the process of setting up smartd when i noticed the head
noise (although it's not the first time i've noticed it). smartd is
enabled now. I don't even have X installed yet (i'm trying to keep the
system minimal while i figure out all the issues), so KDE and other
DE's is out of the equ
> One of my 4 SATA HDDs is constantly making "write noise"
"write noise" is different to spin up and spin down noise, so spins
unlikely are the issue, but sometimes long write/read processes happen
for some Linux installs. However, it's indeed fishy that
> The HDD activiy LED doesn't blink on th
Hi
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:09:35PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> One of my 4 SATA HDDs is constantly making "write noise", as if it was
> under heavy load. However, the system is idle (and recently
> installed).
> I can't see any activity on iotop and this starts immediately wh
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 10:50 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:55:48 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > For each drive
> > $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd...
> > now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for
>
On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:55:48 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> For each drive
> $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd...
> now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for
> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
>
> https://e
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
For each drive
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd...
now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for
ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
This will
For each drive
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd...
now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for
ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
This will show you if a drive does spin up and down.
Some softwa
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> You can try using smartctl to check the status of the drive(s) in question
> (e.g.
> "smartctl -H /dev/sda", though this is just a real quick check - check the man
> page for all options) . There is (IIRC) also a monitoring daemon that c
On 17/02/2014 08:09, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> [...]
>
> Short of unplugging the drives one by one, is there a way i can a)
> discover/confirm which one is thrashing about? and b) make it stop?
> I've seen hdparm -s is not recommended, and i'm not sure if whichever
> drive it is it s
Greetings,
One of my 4 SATA HDDs is constantly making "write noise", as if it was
under heavy load. However, the system is idle (and recently
installed).
I can't see any activity on iotop and this starts immediately when i
turn on the box. The HDD activiy LED doesn't blink on this activity.
All d
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