[Gllug] IBM Ultrastar HD noise...?

[David Irvine]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:58, Tethys wrote:
> 

Seems to be something common with IBM Drives, my ibm laptop disk
periodically does the same, its a travelstar. Its not as often, and
possibly quite random, perhaps i just don't hear it but it sounds
unhealthy but doesnt seem to be anything wrong with the disk.

David

> Stephen Harker writes:
> 
> >> My disk is exactly the same, i.e. IBM IC35L018UWD210-0
> >
> >No I didn't
> >They still make the same sound and they still work fine. Someone 
> >suggested that it was a power-save thing but thats as far as I got. They 
> >are servers and I don't hear them most of the time...
> 
> I get exactly the same thing. I added one of these drives to my machine
> a week or so ago, and since then it's been making the whine-squeak noise
> every few minutes. Other than that, it seems to be working fine. From
> /proc/scis/scsi:
> 
>   Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
>     Vendor: IBM      Model: IC35L018UWD210-0 Rev: S5BS
>     Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> 
> Someone on the LKML speculated that it was the drive performing
> thermal reclaibration, but I don't know whether that's genuinely
> the cause or not.
> 
> Tet
> 
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