[Suns-at-Home] Stopping the disks clicking

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>From: silvercreekvalley <silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com>
>Date: 2007/07/10 Tue AM 06:23:38 CDT
>To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
>Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Stopping the disks clicking

>I have a SunBlade 1000 which is fitted with two
>SCSI drives (70G) and it works wonderfully :)

Correction - FC-AL drives, not SCSI drives (assuming the drives are internal)

>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.

Odd...

>I'm guessing this is something to do with swap
>space or similar? Anyway I just wondered if
>there is any way of stopping this or making
>it less frequent.

Can you isolate it down to one drive? If you power up the unit, but do not boot into Solaris, does the clicking continue? I suspect it is a drive that is starting to fail, but that is just a guess...

>Its not too irritating, sounding a bit like an
>old grandfather clock - but just wondered...

Best of luck with it,

Ken