>Actually, that not a seeking sound. That a very special sound much more >louder than the normal seeking sound. That sounds like a plastic piece >banging against another one and. It's not regular but it never stops.
To me, your description sounds like a failing drive. If it's the original drive, my personal feeling is not to trust drives much past 5 yrs, it is $60-120 to get a nice new lower-power consumption, with more capacity, often higher rpm IDE drive with shorter seek times new, and you just don't have to worry about the drive going out. I've occasionally nursed failing drives along by mapping out bad sectors, but it's so much easier to just get a new one. And a failing drive, might just quit spinning up completely any day. Some drives have a temperature-compensation feature (I think that's right) where they will seek the heads across the whole disk every so often, but I thought those were only SCSI, and usually larger-size SCSI. If you look up the model # on the manufacturers page for your drive, you might try and find out about this info- that might be all you are hearing, I suppose. I really think it's a SCSI only thing, though. It's a little hard to think about buying a drive for a computer you just got, but it might be worth doing. In the long run, it's likely going to be needed anyway... Brian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
