23 Jul
2004
23 Jul
'04
12:40
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 12:46, James Knott wrote:
When disks start failing, they're not far from total failure. Given the price of disks these days, why bother using one that you know will soon die?
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But the noises aren't an indication that it's failing. Seeing as he's
checked that. Theres a problem with the 2.6 kernel that causes some
laptop harddrives to make rather worrying clicking sounds. Mostly Dell
laptops, which, when running under windows don't make this sound.
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Is the disk Smart enabled? Enable it in the bios if you can and get hold
of some software that can read the info. Don't know what though. The
disk can tell you itself if it's failing.
Regards
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Adam Cooper