5 Sep
2012
5 Sep
'12
9:48 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 Hollandia at ccountry.net wrote:
The drive under consideration is, I think, doing the
same thing. It
periodically makes a noise that sounds like an impact. This noise is being
encountered with increasing frequency; I wonder if the the drive is headed
for a failure. I have other drives I can put in its place, if need be.
THAT (that the drive is making a specific "bad" noise) would have been
MUCH more useful for you to get the info that you wanted than the
completely wide-open query whether there's a program to predict failure.
Such programs look at incidence of read errors, etc.; they do NOT test for
loose track zero stops, etc.
seek to different tracks, and recalibrate (seek to zero), and see whether
that is the same noise.
I don't understand the reference to
"popcorn"...what is the meaning here?
Does the noise sound like corn popping?