Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@aramis.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Yet another Hard Disk question/problem (Miniscribe) Keywords: Miniscribe 3650, loudness!! :-( Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 88 23:30:33 GMT References: <13648@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 Mark Mitchie asks whether it's normal for the Miniscribe 3650 to make lots of noise. I've got a Miniscribe 3650 in a Leading Edge D2, on a WD controller. It sounds like a car that's stripping its gears. It's loud enough that I'm reluctant to reboot my machine after midnight, for fear of disturbing the neighbors. It happens at times which on a real machine would be when the system is doing a bus init, and lasts for at least 5 sec. I've assumed it's doing a recal. Depending upon the operating system (I use DOS, Minix, and Microport), it happens between one and three times as the system is coming up. I can't imagine any disk drive doing something that obnoxious without causing internal damage, but the drive has been in operation for several months with no problems. My machine is a bit on the noisy side during normal operation also, but I had assumed that was the fan. Might be the drive. I don't regard it as obnoxious. I'm actually reasonably please with the drive.