Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!xroads!tosh!starta From: starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: ci and a mysterious whirring disk drive Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 00:07:00 GMT References: <10635@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Before Computing, Phoenix, Arizona Lines: 26 ddaniel@lindy.Stanford.EDU (D. Daniel Sternbergh) writes: > 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). It sounds like we have very similar problems only mine didn't do it when I first bought the drive. It seems that over a period of four months it has gotten worse, or I have too much time on my hands and am beginning to notice it more. The latter I doubt. Also, mine is doing what sounds like mysterious random seeks for no apparent reason. The length of time varies on the random seeks from five seconds to upto two minutes and the activity light isn't on during the seeks. One other thing I that have noticed is that it seems to slow down the actual reads and writes being made to the disk. Especially with high disk useage applications like mail or the like. > Does this sound like something I should be really concerned about? Any > idea what might be causing it? I don't know. I am returning mine and see if this one is just bad or if this is something that I have to look forward to. I hope not. John