On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Matthew D Moss wrote: > I have a 1gig IDE hard drive in my Intel/Debian Linux machine. The machine > is up all the time, and up until now, I've had no problems with it. > > Recently, the hard drive has starting making a weird "ping" noise that > I know I've never heard before. These ping's are very infrequent, but > usually come 2-3 within a minute, then won't happen again (that I know) > for a day or two. Even that seems too often.... > > Can anyone tell me what this might indicate? Hopefully it's not the drive > going bad, considering it's less that 6 months old. What would be the > best way to diagnose and repair this problem??? I really don't favor > getting another drive, since this is my primary machine. Unfortunately, this is the drive physically going bad. The ping sound is the built-in controller of the drive losing control of the drive... :(
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