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.
