From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Oct 04 1998 - 19:31:01 EDT
On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 10:05:57 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote:
>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.
Maybe it's from SMART?
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