[rescue] An interesting sound

[Steve Sandau]

Sounds kinda like a knife-grinder??

I've had a few of those. The sound got to me before any of the drives
ever failed. ;)

The noise did get to be quite irritating... but the drives never died.
Keep in mind, I make no guarantees here!

Andrew Weiss wrote:
> 
> One of my PC's on my desk at work (the Solaris 8 box) has started making
> strange sounds from the hard disk I believe.  It was silent then out of
> nowhere I hear light tiny sounds that remind me of a circular saw
> contacting something it's cutting... not loud or anything... it happens
> every now and then fading in and out.  I telnetted in and its still
> happily running.  It's a test machine anyways and I haven't done anything
> with it for the 22 days it has been up so far.  HD failing?
> 

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Steve Sandau
IS Technician, TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com