From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 10:07:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA18541 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 10:07:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from vanbc.wimsey.com (root@vanbc.wimsey.com [204.191.160.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18536 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 10:07:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by vanbc.wimsey.com (Smail-3.1.29.1 #32) id m0tj8qR-0000e8C; Sun, 4 Feb 96 10:07 PST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Path: news.wimsey.com!not-for-mail From: jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders) Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: Quantum Atlas woes Date: 4 Feb 1996 10:07:22 -0800 Organization: Wimsey Information Services Lines: 17 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4f2skq$e80@vanbc.wimsey.com> References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk leo@rur.com (Leo Papandreou) writes: >Also, it hurts me to say this and I'm begining to fear for the worst, >the drive will be quiet for several minutes and then all of a sudden >start to emit these grinding/rattling/sickening burps every 20 seconds >or so. Can't help you on the NCR driver, but I think this noise is normal for the Atlas. At least the one I had here made this kind of a noise, every time an update flush ran (I used this drive for a month at home under Linux) That same drive is still going strong at work as our main news drive 6 months later, so I don't think the noise is a sign of imminent failure. -- John Henders