[OT] Hard Drive Clicking Noise for Hitachi Mobile Drives

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Thu Dec 23 15:56:41 UTC 2004


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:05:15AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>> I only found out today when I checked on DELL's website and found the
>> firmware update. Seems like IBM also had something like this reported in
>> ZDnet.
>
> The IBM laptop drive I put in my Toshiba Libretto often makes a
> disconcertingly loud click. It's worked fine for years, though. I talked to
> an IBM tech right after I got the drive and noticed the weird noise, and was
> told that it's completely normal and just the drive realigning itself.

thermal recalibration

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/actRecal.html


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