[Suns-at-Home] Stopping the disks clicking

[Andre van Eyssen]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, silvercreekvalley wrote:

> I have a SunBlade 1000 which is fitted with two
> SCSI drives (70G) and it works wonderfully :)
>
> However - I've noticed that when the unit is
> switched on and idle - the disks emit a click
> or 'clunk' sound every 2-3 seconds.

If they're under disksuite control, they'll get a probe periodically to 
make sure they're still alive. It gets a lot more noticable when you've 
got a lot of drives together.

-- 
Andre van Eyssen.
                   "the only value you can add to a banana is a bruise"
                                                            -- McNealy.