[ltp] Re: Clicking hard disk sound

[Shigeo Tanai]

At 22:44 01/08/24, Dirk Husemann wrote:
>>>>>> "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...


IBM has some sample hard disk trouble sounds on its knowledge base.
You can find it at:

<http://ssddom01.storage.ibm.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74/4b1a62a50f405d0d86256756006e340c?OpenDocument>


Geo


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