About the IBM R40e notebook and its harddrive, making strange sounds.

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Jason wrote:

>> My harddrive (I believe its a IBM harddrive, since the whole notebook 
>> is IBM) makes strange sounds every 1-2 minutes if there is _no_ great 
>> load or system activity.
>>
>> Don't laugh, but something like:
>>
>> "dack, dack."
>>
> 1.My first thought would be its ibm.  If you remember reading about ibm 
> drives dieing for no reason, it was because the heads would drift when 

It is more the 3 1/2" drives.

> Would "dack" be the normal sound for your drive, or is it only under 

It sounds like the normal operating sound. I have one 20 GB IBM 
drive since 2 years. The noise makes you jump but the drive still 
works. I moved it between notebooks and operating systems. It is 
always the same sound but it looks to me that the noise is less 
under FreeBSD.

Erich