-------- Warner Losh writes: > It close to impossible to isolate the drive making the noise.
Use a long thin piece of hard wood as a stethoscope. I keep a 30cm length of 6mm beech dowel in my tool-chest, but in a pinch you can use a pencil or the shaft from an art-brush. Press one end agaist the little piece of cartilage which can close into your ear, and hold the other end against the suspect disk-drive, and you hear if there are any mechanical issues. It also works for fans, motors, bikes etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
