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cell

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[SOLVED]constant click sound when two partitions are mounted

Brand new 3TB mechanical hard drive. Partitions /sda1 and /sda2.

When I mount only /sda1 no constant clicking sound.

When I mount only /sda2 no constant clicking sound.

When I mount both /sda1 and /sda2 simultaneously a constant clicking sound/noise starts.

Got an old hard drive that do not behave like this, no clicking when two partitions are mounted at the same time.

Last edited by cell (2018-10-07 14:39:55)

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED]constant click sound when two partitions are mounted

Clicking is usually bad.  Never seen the behavior you mention but I would not trust my data to that device.  Have you seen anything in dmesg to indicate a failure?  How about a long test via smartmontools?

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cell

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Re: [SOLVED]constant click sound when two partitions are mounted

I would add that if the drive is one single partition I also do not get any immediate clicking sounds.

dmesg | grep sdb
[    2.506005] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.73 TiB)
[    2.506007] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks
[    2.506015] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[    2.506016] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    2.506030] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    2.554114]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
[    2.554577] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[    3.950155] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  360.607890] EXT4-fs (sdb2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  529.561376] EXT4-fs (sdb2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  590.056995] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  592.398748] EXT4-fs (sdb2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  647.478235] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  682.357967] EXT4-fs (sdb2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  854.989268] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[  859.106967] EXT4-fs (sdb2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 1852.500546] EXT4-fs (sdb2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 1858.793010] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

Just started smartctl -t long on your suggestion. ETA 6 hours.

cell

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Re: [SOLVED]constant click sound when two partitions are mounted

Decided it was not worth the trouble so the disk is packed and shipped to return.

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Re: [SOLVED]constant click sound when two partitions are mounted

Decided it was not worth the trouble so the disk is packed and shipped to return.

Good decision.  Did you overwrite the partitions in question to destroy any personal data?

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cell

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Re: [SOLVED]constant click sound when two partitions are mounted

Good decision.  Did you overwrite the partitions in question to destroy any personal data?

Yep sure did, feels somewhat unlucky nevertheless much better now that the disk is out the door