On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 00:01, James Mckenzie wrote: > Joel Jaeggli said: > > >thermal recalibration > > > >http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/actRecal.html > > > You can also get a program called Drive Fitness Test (DFT) for some of the Hitachi/IBM Travelstar drives from Hitachi. That's what the program calls to update the firmware. > > However, if the drive makes a loud "clack-clack" noise like the hard drive heads hard parking, this can be a sign that the drive is failing. If the noise sounds like a "click-click-click" noise, it could be the hard drive recalibrating due to temperature changes. In any case, a good, verifiable, recent hard drive data backup is always a good thing. > -- > > > > James McKenzie > A Proud User of Linux! -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:54:05 up 1:48, 5 users, 0.36, 0.44, 0.40
