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From: bri@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Brian K. Totty)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Ticking Disk Drive?
Message-ID: <1570@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 12-Apr-86 02:05:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 12 02:05:01 1986
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In article <1532@utai.UUCP> dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) writes:
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>  My Mac+ makes a ticking sound too, but only once in a while (usually
>it's there when I turn on the machine, I think).

	I have noticed the ticking sound coming from the 800K drives when
a disk hasn't been inserted in them.  I especially noticed it in the
external drives.  
	Also, a friend with an Amiga has the same problem with his 880K 
external drive.  The sound goes away when a disk is inserted.