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

[Gunnarsson, Mikael]

> > Would "dack" be the normal sound for your drive, or is it 
> only under 
> 
> It sounds like the normal operating sound. I have one 20 GB IBM 
> drive since 2 years. The noise makes you jump but the drive still 
> works. I moved it between notebooks and operating systems. It is 
> always the same sound but it looks to me that the noise is less 
> under FreeBSD.

I get the same weird clacking sound from my Thinkpad 240 with a 6GB drive (most likely IBM too). It made me worried the first times, but now I've had the machine for couple of months and it hasn't shown any problems.. The previous owner used NT4 on the machine, but she never complained about any sound, so I don't know if it existed then or she just never mentioned it..

M
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