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From: derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: ci and a mysterious whirring disk drive
Message-ID: <3409@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 21:10:26 GMT
References: <10635@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: derek@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (Derek L. / MacLover)
Organization: State U. of New York at Albany Computing Svces.
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From ddaniel@lindy.UUCP (D. Daniel Sternbergh) come these immortal words:
>We have a ci the hard disk of which occasionally makes a whirring
>sound, like one would expect the hard disk to make when spinning, only
>disturbingly loud.  It is intermittent, more frequent shortly after
>start-up, and dims perceptibly when the hard disk is actually being
>accessed (i.e. when the light is on).

>Does this sound familiar to anyone?  Does this sound like something I
>should be really concerned about?  Any idea what might be causing it?

	Yep, this occurs occasionally on one of the IIcis in my office...
it is not very loud but annoying, and usually happens soon after startup or
not at all, and with any program.  I've assumed it has to do with getting
the drive warmed up.  It only happens when the normal access has ceased,
and performing any disk-accessing activity will stop it (and it usually
won't happen again that session).

	I was going to check it out but it's low on my priority list at the
moment (of course, reading usenet is not!).  :-)

>  == Daniel ==                     Daniel Sternbergh

						Derek L.
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