On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:04 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > After three hours on the different powersupply one of the drives (with > no SATA connection) has spontaneously started clunking every few > seconds and has twice spun down and up again. When I picked it up to > read the label it stopped clunking briefly then resumed. Just for interest's sake: Was it mounted somewhere with decent air flow for heat dissipation? Was it bolted to a metal chassis that would help with heat dissipation? Was it grounded? Were anti-static precautions taken during handling? -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.