About the IBM R40e notebook and its harddrive, making strange sounds.

[Ludwig Schreier]

Hi community,

it isn't easy to describe and actually it is not a serious problem, but what 
is the UFS (Unix File System, FFS even?) doing every few minutes?

My harddrive (I believe its a IBM harddrive, since the whole notebook is IBM) 
makes strange sounds every 1-2 minutes if there is _no_ great load or system 
activity.

Don't laugh, but something like:

"dack, dack."

A frequent routine check  ... ?

I have read a bit about how harddrives work and what's in them, because I am 
interessted in such things and what exactly is the reading header doing ?

If the harddrive is driven by NTFS i.e., no sounds will occure.

So the question is - because no major errors of hardware occured yet - does 
this mean something to my harddrive or is it just how UFS is working with it?

Thanks for help on this! :)

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Ludwig Schreier
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