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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A question about hard disk
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Date: 21 Dec 89 14:48:32 GMT
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)


  I'm told that the sound is the momentum of the platters being used to
rachet the head back to safe parking. You should notice that the sound
changes depending on what program you ran before shutdown. Nothing to
worry about, they all do it, many with a distinct CLICK at the end of
the sound.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon