Nick,
I get disk write errors every so often, with my Micropolis SCSI drive.
I don't know why. Normally am able to keep going. My drive doen't seem
loud at all, although, I do have several computers/drives running right
next to me.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Nick Dalzell wrote:
>
> At college one day, We booted an early pentium 166, and the hard
> drive, a Maxtor 850MB, made a constant 'rat-tat-cling-tong' noise
> that sounded like a screw rolling inside a tin can...Every second or
> so, it sounded normal. This made Win95 take 17 min. to load! After
> every min. or so of normal-386-like performance, along with the HD
> 'tick-cling-clinging' away, a blue screen read:
>
> DISK WRITE ERROR!
>
> DATA OR FILES MAY BE LOST.
>
> But if you pressed a key, Win95 would continue, for another 4-5 min,
> to operate slowly, without problems!
>
> Could this mean trouble, if it happened to MY machine? What does the
> 'clickety-clacking' mean for, and what is it related to in a HD?
>
> Nick
>
> P.S.- Anyone had experience with a HD that sounds like a train? What
> could be causing that?
>
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