Harddisk measuring

From: Roger Grosswiler (roger_at_gwch.net)
Date: 07/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:55:16 +0200

    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 

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