At a guess, you have a sector or group of sectors going bad. It's possible
that the head touched the platter at one point, or that there was a
manufacturing defect. Try running a surface scan with Drive Setup, and see
if there are any bad sectors. If you have bad sectors and are lucky, you
might be able to reformat the drive and map out the bad sectors. If not, you
will need to replace the drive.
on 01.7.11 10:04 AM, Bill Cheeseman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
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