23 Mar
2011
23 Mar
'11
9:10 a.m.
On 23 Mar 2011 at 15:34, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Automatic background surface scan most likely. One
thing to try would
be:
- make sure the drive is idle (unmounted)
- trigger (via SMART) a long self test
- listen to the noise from the drive, the probably sound similiar
It probably is, or some auto-recalibrate mechanism (the drive did
this even with the host system power off). A lot of people have
apparently encountered this and it's apparently not a problem.
--Chuck