On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:05:15AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > This is FYI and so I hope I don't get flamed for this.(yes, I've seen it > happen) No flames from me, this is most interesting. > Anyway, if you're an owner of a specific list of Hitachi Mobile Drives, > and you've been experiencing some sort of "clicking" noise, it could > really be the hard-drive firmware. HA! I had often wondered about that clicking noise. > I only found out today when I checked on DELL's website and found the > firmware update. Seems like IBM also had something like this reported in > ZDnet. > > I just flashed my hard Drive (80GB Hitachi) and I'll monitor to see if > it still clicks. Thanks, I'll look into this after the holidays. Did you have to use windows to install the firmware update? My D600 is 100% "Microsoft(tm) Free" (as far as I know). > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 10:04:36 up 57 min, 4 average: 0.49, 0.25, 0.44 -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
