Hi,
i had to setup my fc2 box because of a hd crashed. after installing my new, all went well - except the busy light of the harddisk now burns permanently. As response from the supplier i got: this might happen, new hd's use 3.3V instead of 5V, so if you motherboard not recognizing it, it is no problem - but the new hd is 5V either - they should know, as i sent them models, serialnumbers and all of it - another example for a helpdesk not really caring about the problems of their customers and just replying without a good investigation before.
I know, here i am in good hands.
so, i expect that even if the busy lamp burns permanently, the ide-disk doesn't turn fulltime. it's just the lamp. so perhaps some pins at the disk are a kind of weird.
i look now for a tool, that measures rpms of the ide-disk, without doing benchmarks. so i could see, if no i/o-operation is going on the speed should be 0, and if some i/o-operation going on the speed of the disk.
i was searching for days now in internet and found for win many toosl using s.m.a.r.t - this tells start/stop but almost in % and doesnt really help me.
why this damn light is disturbing me? i use a laptop - if this hd doesn't stop spinning, i don't have so much battery-lifetime, thats all.
so, does somebody know a tool, where i can measure the rpm's? it should really be some kind of daemon or whatever, that just measures the actual speed of the harddisk.
thanks a lot. Roger
On Saturday 31 July 2004 11:55, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
Hi,
i had to setup my fc2 box because of a hd crashed. after installing my new, all went well - except the busy light of the harddisk now burns permanently. As response from the supplier i got: this might happen, new hd's use 3.3V instead of 5V, so if you motherboard not recognizing it, it is no problem - but the new hd is 5V either - they should know, as i sent them models, serialnumbers and all of it - another example for a helpdesk not really caring about the problems of their customers and just replying without a good investigation before.
I know, here i am in good hands.
so, i expect that even if the busy lamp burns permanently, the ide-disk doesn't turn fulltime. it's just the lamp. so perhaps some pins at the disk are a kind of weird.
The hard drive light being on all the time is usually a sign the drive has not been connected properly (or the hdd led was been wired to the power led pins... )
Drives needing a 3.3v rail are usually SATA and only work with newer equipment, although adaptors etc are avaliable.
Btw, 'burns' isn't really used like this in english unless we're talking about a fire, something being damaged by heat or a CD burner (writer). 'The hard drive light is on all the time' would be more usual. Don't take this as critisism, just trying to help you.
i look now for a tool, that measures rpms of the ide-disk, without doing benchmarks. so i could see, if no i/o-operation is going on the speed should be 0, and if some i/o-operation going on the speed of the disk.
The best way I can think of to see if a disk is spinning is just to touch it and feel the vibrations, or put your ear next to it and see if you can hear any noise.
i was searching for days now in internet and found for win many toosl using s.m.a.r.t - this tells start/stop but almost in % and doesnt really help me.
why this damn light is disturbing me? i use a laptop - if this hd doesn't stop spinning, i don't have so much battery-lifetime, thats all.
so, does somebody know a tool, where i can measure the rpm's? it should really be some kind of daemon or whatever, that just measures the actual speed of the harddisk.
You can measure data rates (but not rpm) with for example:
$ /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda
here you can also set all parameters like how long the computer waits before spinning the drive down.