That really doesn't sound healthy. It sounds like the read/write-head is hitting something, or the drive losing power for a moment (I have auto- select set to 2 seconds). I'll have to find out with which version this behaviour started, since it hasn't always done that.
Just in case this is harddrive-specific (since nobody else seems to have complained about that): [ 1.372301] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS545050B9A300, PB4OC64G, max UDMA/133 grub-pc 1.98~20100128-1ubuntu3 -- strange hard disk noice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517286 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
