Re: [MLUG] Hardisk Sound?

[Tresalizbeth <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Another fun thing to do with a balky hard drive, fun fun!!!!!!!

> The other is just to drop the darn thing from varying heights to jar 
> the heads loose.





Christian M. Cepel wrote:

> I believe it can be either of two things.
>
> 1.  A drive repeatedly attempting and failing to read a sector, and 
> the clicking being the repeated snapping of the heads back over the 
> same region.
>
> 2.  Read head chattering.  There's an infintesimal space between the 
> head and the spinning platter.  Any debris, or deformations in the 
> platter will cause the head to click as it spins past.   This is 
> usually a very bad thing as it tends to end up chattering the head 
> against the platter causing more and more deformations in the platter 
> surface until the head digs into the surface and 'freezes'.   George 
> Robb of LAPS has some wonderful techniques to unfreeze the heads to 
> attempt data recovery.  One technique is; he puts it in the freezer so 
> that the bimetalic properties of the head & arm composition cause the 
> head to flex off of the platter.  The other is just to drop the darn 
> thing from varying heights to jar the heads loose.
>
>
> Jonathan King wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:31:11 -0500, Mark Rages
>> <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> The old "click,click,click" is still with us too.  I just replaced a
>>> disk making that sound yesterday.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Ah!  Not "click,click,click"!  I was trying to forget that one. :-) 
>> What I did forget was what kind of death that noise signifies.
>>
>> jking
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