[rescue] An interesting sound

[Fogg, James]

I've had drives that did this for years, and I've had 2 drives do it for a
day or two before dying. Don't know what to tell you, but I would back it up
and run it till it dies.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Andrew Weiss [mailto:ajwdsp at cloud9.net]
~ Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:08 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [rescue] An interesting sound
~ 
~ 
~ One of my PC's on my desk at work (the Solaris 8 box) has 
~ started making
~ strange sounds from the hard disk I believe.  It was silent 
~ then out of
~ nowhere I hear light tiny sounds that remind me of a circular saw
~ contacting something it's cutting... not loud or anything... 
~ it happens
~ every now and then fading in and out.  I telnetted in and its still
~ happily running.  It's a test machine anyways and I haven't 
~ done anything
~ with it for the 22 days it has been up so far.  HD failing?