[ltp] Re: Clicking hard disk sound

[Dirk Husemann]

>>>>> "EW" == Edmund Weitz <edi@agharta.de> writes:

    EW> One more thing:
    >> From time to time I hear a clicking sound from my hard disk while I'm
    EW> working with Linux. If I had to guess I'd say it sounds as if the
    EW> head tries to go beneath the edge of the disk. I'm not an expert with
    EW> these things, though.

    EW> I still have to spent about half of my time in W2k due to my work and
    EW> I never heard this sound with this OS.

    EW> Has anybody else observed this behaviour?

Yep. No idea what it is. Sounds scarry though. I'll ask a colleague of
mine who is/was into harddisks...

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