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

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>On Apr 18 2007 09:39, Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>So this is the pop I hear on my new laptop that is using
>>libata=combined_mode when I shut my system down. I didn't get the
>>pop with the same disk drive in an older laptop that was only ide.
>>It sounds like a relay closing or opening, but is really my drive
>>head doing an emergency retract/park?
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>Most(?) disks' heads are spring-/power-based so that whenever
>they lose power, the spring retracts the head back to the park zone.
>
>Whether it is the disk head or something else.. take out the disk,
>and retry. Might not be that easy with laptops, though.
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>Jan
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It is definitely the disk drive. It is located in the right front corner 
of my laptop so I put my ear
by it during shutdown and that is where the click is coming from. As I 
said before I had this same
drive in another laptop that was strictly ide so it used the older ide 
driver and it never did this.

Steve

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