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Article #4975Re: Strange disk accesses--System? Init? Virus?
From: Eirikur Hallgrimsson
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 18:29
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 18:29
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In article <350@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, kfr@dip.eecs.umich.edu (K. Fritz Ruehr) writes... >I am experiencing intermittent disk accesses on my Mac Plus for which I have >no explanation and which I fear might belie an infection of some sort. The This is probably normal. Seagate drives "recalibrate" every few minutes for some reason, and you can hear this since the seek is rather loud on these drives (it sounds like a couple of seeks). I think they do this to catch any thermal expansion/contraction problems in the head arm and the disk itself. BTW, if these sounds "belied" an infection, they would be showing it to be not true :-) Eirikur Hallgrimsson eh@ddif.enet.dec.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!ddif.enet.dec.com From: eirikur@ddif.enet.dec.com (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Strange disk accesses--System? Init? Virus? Message-ID: <4876@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 21 Sep 89 18:29:13 GMT Sender: news@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 14