From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Oct 05 1998 - 04:00:41 EDT
Hey guys..
these newer IBM HDD's make more noise..
in fact, they have a label that says, in part..
"Rattle Noise is Normal"
if you shake a bare HDD it WILL rattle..
i guess this got the owners rattled enough to return them..
thus the label after a while...
Paul Khoury wrote:
>
> 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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