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

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Fri Apr 13 2007 - 16:48:09 EST


On 4/13/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> Now we're getting somewhere. There is some other OS on here because
>> it's required for doing BIOS updates. I booted it and shut down.
>> The power cycle count increased but the power off retract count did not.
>>
>> The counts are:
>>
>> power cycle ... 111
>> power off retract ... 92
>>
>> The difference is now 19; it was 18 before.
>
> Is the noise present if you reboot the other OS?
> Does it result in Power-Off_Retract count increase?

There is no noise and the retract count does not increase when I boot
and then shutdown/power off the other OS.

What about shutdown/reboot?
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