Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/29/2014 6:13 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> The drive isn't failing, but has failed. Replace it. > > I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but > then learnt their drive division was bought by Seagate (which

Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > The drive isn't failing, but has failed. Replace it. I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but then learnt their drive division was bought by Seagate (which also bought Maxtor, the brand of the oldest drive on

Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/29/2014 1:20 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Reviving this thread since i tried turning the machine on again (and > amybe another thread will bump this one). > > And, again (well i wasn't expecting it to go away), as soon as the > machine starts - right after POST, even before GRUB - the drive st

Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Reviving this thread since i tried turning the machine on again (and amybe another thread will bump this one). And, again (well i wasn't expecting it to go away), as soon as the machine starts - right after POST, even before GRUB - the drive starts making "reading noise" (like when an antivirus is