On Wednesday 19 May 2004 03:10 am, gf sciacca wrote: > I left the Lombard sleeping yesterday (it was inactive most of the day) > and today in the morning I found it very hot. The HD (hitachi travestal 40 > GB, 5400 rpm, just over 1 year old), which I normally do not hear, was > making some noise, a regular noise, as if it were stuck searching some > data or so. It was supposed to be idle.
Ouch. That's a failing drive. I have noticed that after I replaced the HD in my Wallstreet with a larger one (a 10GB pull from a friend's Pismo) the machine got noticeably warmer than it had been with the stock 2GB drive. However, this is different. I have an IBM 20GB 5400MB drive that is starting to fail, but luckily is hanging on pretty well. It occasionally reseeks and makes little clicking noises. This drive is going to get replaced really soon. I suggest you be maximally careful and back up regularly. You will probably be able to get some more time out of the drive but it will eventually go bad. Since it's such a new drive, you probably still have warrantee on it. Notebook drives tend to have longer warrantees on them than desktop drives, which most of the time only have a year's warrantee. Contact Hitachi right away and get an RMA for it. Good luck, Michelle -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
