23 Mar
2011
23 Mar
'11
7:34 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 03:36:43PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 20 Mar 2011 at 16:02, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 3/20/11 3:44 PM, ben wrote:
Automatic background surface scan most likely. One thing to try would
be:
- make sure the drive is idle (unmounted)
- trigger (via SMART) a long self test
- listen to the noise from the drive, the probably sound similiar
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
That drive light keeps flashing even when I just
press
the keys writing this.
Funny you should mention that. I've got a portable Hitachi 2TB eSATA
drive that I use as a backup with various systems. Today I was doing
a backup from my wife's system. The backup finished, but the drive
was still (audibly) clunking away. I shut down the system, but left
the drive powered up. It continued its conversation with the aether,
unabated. I powered the connected system back up and things looked
normal. Eventually after about 5 minutes, the activity stopped.
No indication of errors; the backup looks fine.
The cache on this thing couldn't have been THAT big. Any idea what
was going on?