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- From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
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- Subject: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:38:36 GMT
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- I have just installed a new scsi II hard drive, a Micropolis 2112
- 3 1/2" one gig. drive on a Buslogic 747s EISA controller.
-
- Most (not quite all) the bugs are out, however one thing worries me
- somewhat. Every so often on intervals on the order of 20 to 30
- minutes apart, (not too regular) there is a momentary sound from
- the hard drive that lasts for about one second (by my reckoning)
- and sound like the drive has been given a seek command. Is this
- possible? (By the way, the above reffers to periods where the
- computer has been switched on, but is otherwise idle during that
- entire period, and not being used by someoneone at the keyboard.
- The only thing happening is whatever internal loop Dos does while
- waiting at the Dos prompt, or Windows does while wating for some
- user input.)
-
- MY only other thought is that somehow, whatever vibrations exist in
- the computer system, somehow get some resonance every 20 or 30
- minutes from some loose element in the computer? Is this likely?
- If that were the case, I think it would happen more frequently.
-
- Anybody seen this before???
- Is this potentially serious? Is there some line on the controller
- card being improperly triggered every so often??
-
- Thank you very much for the help.
-
- Henry Manaster
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- Henry Manaster * EMail: manaster@yu1.yu.edu
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- Disclaimer: The above is not necessarily MY opinion nor that
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