On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 02:38 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > if you have a drive that goes "knock knock knock knock" when powered > up, what the heck is that? I seem to remember that it's either jerking the heads rapidly to try and get them to move all the way, or hitting them against the stop trying to reset its idea of where the start position is. Though I think the latter case is more to do with floppy drives. I can remember being amused at a friend doing a similar thing trying to get his car going, years ago. He opened the door, put his foot out, and wiggled the car back and forth. Made me think of a kid playing with toy cars. His car was always having problems, one day it stopped dead while we were waiting at traffic lights next to a graveyard. I think it was trying to drop a hint. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. ________________________________________________________________ And in next week's episode Karl sets fire to his PC by yum updating a kernel, stay tuned...
