Bug 111801

Summary: Hard drive 'clicks'
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Trond Thorbjørnsen <trond>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Trond Thorbjørnsen 2003-12-10 10:22:22 UTC
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Description of problem:
Maybe this is a hardware problem, I don't know. But last time my hard
drive had bad performance, it was Magicdev.

Tvelve days ago, my hard drive started to make a clicking noise, and
speeded up and down (sounds like a cd-rom), and when this happens, the
computer hangs for a few seconds.

The problem disappeared for some days, but is back now.

I have tested the hard drive, and it passed.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start reading data from hard drive.
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Additional info:

My computer is a dell inspiron 8200.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2003-12-10 19:58:25 UTC
The 'dev' package contains the device nodes in /dev, and doesn't
actually access any hardware devices directly.  Bouncing to 'kernel',
where there might be some clue.

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2003-12-16 19:14:17 UTC
are there any errors/warnings in dmesg output after its done this
speeding up / slowing down ?   It does smell like a hardware fault to me.

Comment 3 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:41:44 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/