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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Jul 2002 : 14:23:46
My Quadra now has a 1.2 gig hard drive & a 4.23 gig hard drive.Every few minutes I hear a clunking/grinding noise. It's not to pronounced. Should I worry about this? I am assuming it is one of the drives which is noisy. shaktiman Quadra 840av 128MB ram 2MB vram cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)1.44 floppy drive,inject :-(1.2 gig drive
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jul 2002 : 15:45:16
Yeah, it's probably a noisy drive. I have one particulat Segate 2GB drive that's louder than any other SCSI drive I've ever used.666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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QuadraJets
Junior Member
USA
344 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2002 : 20:06:17
I have 2 seagate 7200 rpm hard drives that sound like a friggin' lear jet flying through the house. One is in the mirror server, and has been running almost nonstop for 3 months without any problems, so I wouldn't worry about it. The other noisy drive is in the feetsmac, which is running Debian Linux 68k, with the only issue being how I forgot my password.  Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2002 : 20:50:58
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My Quadra now has a 1.2 gig hard drive & a 4.23 gig hard drive.
Every few minutes I hear a clunking/grinding noise. It's not to pronounced. Should I worry about this?
If it is a drive, and if it's no louder than the drive is when it's normally operating - then it sounds like nothing to worry about. Of all of my drives, 2 of them (one in a 630 and one in a 700) seem to 'self check' or calibrate or just... tickle themsleves every few minutes. They do this under MacOS, Debian or A/UX... Some drives just do that. Both are Quantums, curiously. dana
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2002 : 23:43:56
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If it is a drive, and if it's no louder than the drive is when it's normally operating - then it sounds like nothing to worry about. Of all of my drives, 2 of them (one in a 630 and one in a 700) seem to 'self check' or calibrate or just... tickle themsleves every few minutes. They do this under MacOS, Debian or A/UX... Some drives just do that. Both are Quantums, curiously.
Dana, are they thsoe Quantum LPS drives? I have 2 of them (one in my old Digital 386, one in my LCII), and they do that every few minutes. Why don't you run it with the lid off on your LC475 just to see exactly what its doing?  -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
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oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jul 2002 : 05:51:14
The Apple-branded Quantum Lightning 730S that came with my 6100 does that self-calibration thing too. It's worked fine for about three years now. I don't think your drive is dying, shaktiman.Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jul 2002 : 05:55:37
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I don't think your drive is dying, shaktiman.
Yeah, i'd say your drive is fine. -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jul 2002 : 06:08:34
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Dana, are they thsoe Quantum LPS drives? I have 2 of them (one in my old Digital 386, one in my LCII), and they do that every few minutes. Why don't you run it with the lid off on your LC475 just to see exactly what its doing?
Cos the drives aren't on their way out. yet :D. And I think they are LPS's... although I do have a couple of LPS's that work nice n quietly. Might be a ROM thing... dana
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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jul 2002 : 15:00:01
 by way of a thankyou to all the reassurers. shaktiman Quadra 840av 128MB ram 2MB vram cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)1.44 floppy drive,inject :-(1.2 gig drive
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thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jul 2002 : 22:53:24
Is that self checking sound similar to a metal twang? I've got a drive (i've forgotten which drive exactly, it's either a 2.1 gig barracuda drive or a 3 gig quantum drive) that has this nasty sound like the head is just whacking against something metallic. i haven't noticed it doing it on regular intervals or during major read/writes or idle, just whenever._______________________
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Australia
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Posted - 23 Jul 2002 : 00:08:13
You should see it on the SGI Indigo2s that we have here: the loud sound IRIX makes when you start a program is just how I imagined a hard drive head hitting the platters would sound.~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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