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- From: t06@clark.edu (Torry Schreiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Funny Quantum 240AT HD noise?
- Keywords: quantum hard disk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.022101.29060@clark.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:21:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: clark.1992Nov17.022101.29060
- References: <1992Nov5.203049.20578@netcom.com> <Bxt9sr.Ms2@cs.vu.nl> <1992Nov16.144827.19571@utkux1.utk.edu>
- Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
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- In article <1992Nov16.144827.19571@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
- >In article <Bxt9sr.Ms2@cs.vu.nl> jjolive@cs.vu.nl (Olivera JJ) writes:
- >>ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams) writes:
- >>
- >>>This may be an FAQ; I hope not.
- >>
- >>>I just bought the Quantum 240 AT hard disk drive. It has an on-board
- >>>256K cache, supposedly, and is supposed to be blinding fast. I haven't
- >>>really gotten a chance to test its speed, but I have noticed that
- >>>even when nothing's going on, it seems to make a chukka-chukka-chukka
- >>>sound about every ten seconds.
- >>
- >>>Is this normal? Am I misinterpreting what I'm hearing? I didn't get
- >>>any docs with this drive (it came installed in a system I bought)
- >>>and I'd like to know what's going on. It's a little disconcerting
- >>>and I'm sure it's going to bother me when I'm trying to think.
- >>
- >>>What's the story here?
- >>
- >>>-- Ernest
- >
- >I have a Quantum 120lps SCSI disk and it does the same thing. I am not quite
- >sure what it is doing, but it does appear to be the normal thing for
- >Quantum's lps drives to do.
- >
- >Sean Harp
- >University of Tennessee
-
- I was told it does some self-checking. I don't know if you can turn it
- off but I wish I could sometimes.
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- Torry V. Schreiner t06@clark.edu
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