Re: New TP600 -- hard disk noise (& other issues)

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From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Sun Oct 04 1998 - 13:05:57 EDT


At 02:24 AM 10/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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.

        No, its not the heads parking. Just to check, I did as you suggested and
there is no "tonk" sound.

>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.

        Sort of like that, I guess. Its not a *constant* "tonk" at all, but it
does happen every now and again and every time it does, I swear the disk is
about to crash.

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