On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 20:50 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > On 21.Okt.2013, at 19:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > FWIW when gvfs wakes up the > > drive, this doesn't cause a click noise, only a drive that is close to > > it's death makes this noise, when the heads are released. > > Putting a harddisk to sleep and wake it up does not make a click noise. Only > thing it does is beginning to rotate, or stop. > But putting a harddisk to sleep is not the same as parking it's heads. These > are two different functions. Normal sleep does not automatically involve > parking it's heads, AFAIK. > > Parking the head's (or unparking them, or both) *is* making a click, albeit > relatively low noise. > My experience is it's also drive dependent, some drive models make louder > noise than other.
I guess you're right, however, click noise might be caused by several actions, they can be loud and silent, but regarding to the cycles of the OP's drives I suspect it's the sound of death. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382383734.11372.129.camel@archlinux
