Re: Noise from backup-disk

[John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 03:32:57PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> Heard noise when I mounted a HD that is connected to USB .
>
> How to I test this?

Not sure what you want to test, but maybe umount it
and do something like:

# dd if=/dev/r<device> of=/dev/null

and see if any errors occur.

Another thing is to check log files.

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