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- From: smyers.s@applelink.apple.com (Scott Smyers)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Noise like a seek coming from new scsi hard drive.
- Message-ID: <34932@goofy.apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:54:24 GMT
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- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- The noise you hear is most likely not a problem. Occasionally, some
- disks decide to do a thermal recalibration, which means that they do full
- stroke seeks just to make sure they're getting from point A to point B
- reliably and with a known repeatability. Your description sounds like
- that's what your drive is doing.
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- Some drives do this more often than others, and some almost never do it.
- Doing a thermal recalibration doesn't necessarily mean that the drive has
- heated up or cooled down since the last time it was done. I too have a
- drive that does this periodically, but all drives of the same type
- generally have the same behavior on this.
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- Scott Smyers
- Apple Computer
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