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pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu (Pat Martin) writes:
> I have a Quantum ProDrive LPS 540MB internal drive inside my
> computer itself and all of a sudden it has become very LOUD
> with a whining type of sound; however, it is functioning
> perfectly. Any hints clues or ideas appreciated.

Yeah - back it up *now*. Had a drive do this just before christmas, worked
fine for a while, then had a very nice head crash gouging lumps out of the
oxide and other nasty stuff. ho hum.

-bat.

pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu (Pat Martin) writes:

>I have a Quantum ProDrive LPS 540MB internal drive inside my
>computer itself and all of a sudden it has become very LOUD
>with a whining type of sound; however, it is functioning
>perfectly. Any hints clues or ideas appreciated.
>pat
>pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu

I believe DEC did a study where they found that they could predict some
70% of drive failures before they happened simply by logging things like 
strange noises and increasing soft error rates. This is from memory though I
have seen two drives fail after giving out warning signs. One of them
began making louder spinning and seeking noises. The other one was DOS
formatted and just gave more and more errors before giving up entirely.

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>
>>I have a Quantum ProDrive LPS 540MB internal drive inside my
>>computer itself and all of a sudden it has become very LOUD
>>with a whining type of sound; however, it is functioning
>>perfectly. Any hints clues or ideas appreciated.
>>pat
>>pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu

Yeah, I also have a Qunatum ProDrive 1.2GB drive and it is also louder
than hell, but works fine. I have gone through several cases trying to
quiet the damn thing down, but it is still loud. I would still take more
frequent backups to be on the safe side, but I think that the damn things
were just engineered to run loud. Kind of the Harley Davidson of the hard
drive crowd.

Pat Martin (pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: I have a Quantum ProDrive LPS 540MB internal drive inside my
: computer itself and all of a sudden it has become very LOUD
: with a whining type of sound; however, it is functioning
: perfectly. Any hints clues or ideas appreciated.
: pat
: pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu

Though I am not enough of an expert to tell you what's wrong,
one advice:

Make a backup. Do it ! NOW !!!

I remember that some time ago someone had a similar problem,
and I remember that he was told that this *might* be a first
sign of VERY serious trouble in the near future.

Chris

Christoph Ozdoba, M.D.    University of Bern    Dept. of Neuroradiology
Inselspital         Freiburgstrasse      CH-3010 Bern       Switzerland
Phone: x41-31-632 2655     Fax: x41-31-382 2503   ozdoba@insel.unibe.ch
If you want to know more about me:   http://cranium.unibe.ch/hfame.html

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In <3fm13r$1fq@aragorn.unibe.ch>, ozdoba@unibe.ch (Christoph Ozdoba) writes:
>Pat Martin (pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
>: I have a Quantum ProDrive LPS 540MB internal drive inside my
>: computer itself and all of a sudden it has become very LOUD
>: with a whining type of sound; however, it is functioning
>: perfectly. Any hints clues or ideas appreciated.
>: pat
>: pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu

I does happen and often there are no problems to wory about.  Wierd disk noises
have been commmon for years.  A good backup is always a good idea as they often 
fail without making any noise.  Most all drive develop a personality that varies even amoung
the same make and model.  Sometime running it for a day or two straight will shake
it out.  It may go away and come back too.  I had one that would sound like a dive
bomber, make a few bomb runs then go away for a while.  Ran like that for a very long
time.  Getting drives repaired is really expensive and mostly only for un backed up
data recovery.  If the drive is more than a few years old it is hardly ever worth it.
back it up often (good idea always) and keep an eye on it.  Start dreaming about a 
new killer drive.  If you satrt to get a lot of hard errors, chuck it.  Run CHKDSK or
SCANDISK or another disk utility regularly to find errors before they get out of hand.
Older drives need a little more TLC to help them through old age.

>
>Though I am not enough of an expert to tell you what's wrong,
>one advice:
>
>Make a backup. Do it ! NOW !!!
>
>I remember that some time ago someone had a similar problem,
>and I remember that he was told that this *might* be a first
>sign of VERY serious trouble in the near future.
>
>Chris
>
>Christoph Ozdoba, M.D.    University of Bern    Dept. of Neuroradiology
>Inselspital         Freiburgstrasse      CH-3010 Bern       Switzerland
>Phone: x41-31-632 2655     Fax: x41-31-382 2503   ozdoba@insel.unibe.ch
>If you want to know more about me:   http://cranium.unibe.ch/hfame.html


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