Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Apr 11 2007 17:35, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Apr 11 2007 17:07, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>> When I reboot my notebook, it powers off and powers back on.
>>> On poweroff a loud snapping noise seems to be coming from the
>>> hard drive. Today I noticed there is no "shutdown: hda" on
>>> the console when I reboot. Whne I do a normal poweroff the
>>> message is displayed and there is no noise. Should the IDE
>>> code be changed so it always shuts down the drive?
>> 
>> What sort of notebook? What sort of harddisk?
>
>Compaq Presario V2000 series, with a new Seagate ST9120821A
>120GB 5400RPM drive.

I specifically hoped you might have a TOSHIBA MK2003GAH,
which does a hard unload when left idle for too long.

Only on reboots huh?

What happens if you reboot another OS, freebsd f.ex.? (You can try that off
CD1)

Jan
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