From: Adam Quantrill (aquantrill_at_scigen.co.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 10:35:59 EDT
My 6G IBM Travelstar doesn't make much noise when it's operating, but it does make a sound like a screw loose inside if you slowly turn it end-over-end out of the Thinkpad. THis was a bit worrying initially, especially when it didn't work when I first plugged it in (this just turned out to be the cable select pins though).
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Subject: Re: holy cow!
Author: MIME:"STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu> at INTERNET
Date: 4/5/00 2:26 PM
For what its worth, the strange and obnoxious sounds that my little 4G disk makes
has not affected it in any way operationally. I've been talking with other ThinkPad
owners, and a great number of them have reported of the whining noise as well.
Interestingly, the 6G disks may not whine as much as the others do--but this is
>from my unscientific polling of all the TP people I know locally, and might not be
a good sample at all.
I have gotten reports of noise on 4G, 10G, 12G, 14G drives. I think the two loudest
drives I have yet heard are mine (4G) and a 14G unit.
However, no one has reported disk failures, which is a good sign. Perhaps we just
have an irritating characteristic we have to live with? (Ugh...)
--STeve Andre'
At 08:37 AM 4/5/00 -0500, sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. wrote: >Ok people, you've made me very afraid.
>
>I've read the articles about the noise that some bad harddrives make, and i >think i've got the same problem.
>
>The question is, do i trust the UK serivce or not?
>will i have all these problems that others had with IBM's service? >
>I've noticed that the clunk-clunk noise is not based on software, or it >shouldn't anyway
>since it happens on all three OS's that i've got installed. It doesn't >happen very
>frequently, but when it does, Windoze just gets stuck and i need to shut >down the machine,
>but if it happens under OS/2 or Solaris the operating system just stops >accessing the
>harddrive for a minute and then works fine. >
>or maybe i should wait untill the harddrive goes dead... then atleast they >won't need
>to do any testing to find the fault ;) >
>p H.I.C. & D.B.S. p OS/2 Warp p Hellas p >p ServerConfig p ConfigEdit p OS/2 UK UG p
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