From: John H. Kim (kim_at_stormhaven.org)
Date: Sat Oct 03 1998 - 02:24:00 EDT
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Randal Whittle wrote:
> At 11:06 PM 10/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >If anyone could give me some feedback, it would be appreciated.... I have a
> >new TP 600 with a 4gb drive which randomly makes a light "tonk" sound.
>
> YES!! Me too! Except mine is the 3.1 GB.
Are you sure it's not the heads parking? Try Fn-F3 to go into
standby and force the drive to spin down and park the heads.
How many "tonk" sounds? I just noticed my 560 making a faint
rattling sound, as if it were moving the heads back and forth
6-8 times (the term "sabre rattling" comes to mind). But the
disk access light didn't go on.
-- John H. Kim kim_at_stormhaven.org
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