[Gllug] repeat soft noise from hard drive

[Alistair Mann]

Diana,

SATA & ATA describe the physical connector the hard drive uses, and are 
both found along one of the drive's short edges. "ATA" is more often 
known as EIDE (on older equipment) or PATA (on newer.)

If your existing hard drive connector looks like this, then you have 
PATA/EIDE:
http://bixnet.net/images/HDBar-HPDV1000-HardDrive.jpg

If it looks like this instead, you have SATA:
http://www.lapzone.com/catalog/PICT1449.jpg

Cheers,
-- 
Alistair Mann


Diana Scott wrote:
> Thank you for your information.
> 
> I am going to replace the hard drive and the specification is 2.5’’, 
> UltraDMA 100, S.M.A.R.T 9.5mmH . When I looked up in maplin and it has 
> SATA or ATA. Which one do you think my drive is ?
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> 
>  > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:35:32 +0000
>  > From: gllug at lgeezer.net
>  > To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
>  > Subject: Re: [Gllug] repeat soft noise from hard drive
>  >
>  > Diana Scott wrote:
>  > > For reasons I was having difficulties booting up , so I delete the
>  > > partition and reinstall the software but the installation was stuck in
>  > > the middle not able to complete and I can hear a soft noise repeatedly
>  > > from the hard drive. Although I have still access to the data file 
> using
>  > > ubuntu, the hard drive is now unbootable.
>  >
>  > A noise sufficiently distinct to be discerned as repeating often means
>  > the drive is constantly trying to read (find?) an area of the disk,
>  > fails, and so returns to the outer edge to try again. The suggestion
>  > here is that part of the disk surface is damaged either physically
>  > (dust, head collision etc) or magnetically. Either is Bad.
>  >
>  > > How can I fix this hard drive problem ?
>  >
>  > By replacing the hard drive.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > --
>  > Alistair Mann
>  >
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