Clicks of death can also be caused by confused/failing electronics, which cause the heads to jitter out onto the data area of the platters and then snap back into parking position.
For folks who actually still haven't torn open a dead drive to see the innards, there's a small (but fairly powerful) magnet which holds the heads in parking position when the drive is unpowered. A small metal tab on the positioning assembly makes contact with the magnet when the heads are parked and goes *click!* Everyone should dismantle a [already dead or it will be!] hard drive. There's neat stuff in there. :-) ~B -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Faulkner Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 9:01 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Hard drive recovery > I've assumed (without any real data) that the clicking was > due to breaking of the wires on the ribbon cable to the > heads from the flexing. I didn't think that electronics > would die. The "click of death" is caused whenever the head crashes slowly and gently into the platter and pounces back up... that's why in "worst case scenarios" you get "click... click... click... GRIND". -- Jason Faulkner ------------------------ OldOs.org Owner/Admin / http://oldos.org / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Certified INGOTS Gold Assessor Trainer / http://www.theingots.org ------------------------ OpenOffice.org Marketing Volunteer / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
