2010/10/9 Fatih Tümen <fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > When I ran eix hdf command, all of a sudden my usb drive started > making weird noises. I only have ccache, distfiles and packaes > directories on sda2, the usb disk partition. I don't know why eix > waked up the disk. Eix hung there non-responding for a moment as the > disk kept making noises, so I interrupted the task. Immediately > checked the logs[0] and umounted the device as a reflex.
Hi, I recently had USB external hdd that started to make clicking noises and beeping sounds and I couldn't access it at all anymore. I thought "oh no, click of death"... but I also noticed very faint high-pitch sound coming from the power supply. I contacted the hdd manufacturer and they sent me a new power supply for free. Everything worked perfectly after replacing it. In the past, with the same drive in fact, I also had problem with the USB link dropping, which was causing disk corruption. I tried a different USB cable but same problem persisted. Who knows if this was also caused by the bad power supply, or USB hub overload on my computer. I had about 10 USB devices attached at the time. I removed some and moved around to spread the load out a bit and it worked fine after that. Since replacing the power supply, I've used the same hdd with 2 other computers and haven't have any issues so far. FWIW
