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- From: tl@etek.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.143815.169@etek.chalmers.se>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:38:15 GMT
- References: <1330@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
- Sender: Torbjorn Lindgren
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- >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.)
-
- Some (if not most) SCSI drives do things like that. You have to
- remember that there is some intelligence in the disk, and it can do
- things like that. Why it does that I'm not sure of, but there must be
- a reason.
-