on 7/11/01 10:35 AM, Harry (lists) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> depending on the drive, 'funny noises' could be normal, or the sign of
> impending trouble. If those noises sounds like a grating sound, you are
> looking at a future situation of total hard drive failure (that's usually
> bearings dying on you).
>
> If the drive hasn't made that sound before, but does now, I strongly
> recommend backing up VERY regularly what you have now, and investing into a
> new drive / drive upgrade.
The noise consists of a set of three short sounds spanning, together, about
one and a half seconds, with each of the three sounds being less than half a
second in duration. Each individual sound reminds me of the sound of a drive
head recalibrating, but not quite that. Each set of three sounds is followed
by a pause of a second or more, then another set of the three sounds, then
another pause, and so on, regular as clockwork. This pattern is very
regular, and far too slow to have anything to do with the bearings, I would
think. It happens only while trying to make a copy of the Messages file. The
drive makes no untoward noises in any other circumstances.
On other machines in the past, similar sounds have been traced to bad
directory files, come to think of it, which presumably give the head
incorrect instructions about where to go. I've never experienced hardware
failure with this kind of symptom. And I've been at this for over 25 years.
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