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- From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
- Subject: Re: Funny Quantum 240AT HD noise?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144827.19571@utkux1.utk.edu>
- Keywords: quantum hard disk
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- Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
- References: <1992Nov5.203049.20578@netcom.com> <Bxt9sr.Ms2@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:48:27 GMT
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- In article <Bxt9sr.Ms2@cs.vu.nl> jjolive@cs.vu.nl (Olivera JJ) writes:
- >ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams) writes:
- >
- >>This may be an FAQ; I hope not.
- >
- >>I just bought the Quantum 240 AT hard disk drive. It has an on-board
- >>256K cache, supposedly, and is supposed to be blinding fast. I haven't
- >>really gotten a chance to test its speed, but I have noticed that
- >>even when nothing's going on, it seems to make a chukka-chukka-chukka
- >>sound about every ten seconds.
- >
- >>Is this normal? Am I misinterpreting what I'm hearing? I didn't get
- >>any docs with this drive (it came installed in a system I bought)
- >>and I'd like to know what's going on. It's a little disconcerting
- >>and I'm sure it's going to bother me when I'm trying to think.
- >
- >>What's the story here?
- >
- >>-- Ernest
-
- I have a Quantum 120lps SCSI disk and it does the same thing. I am not quite
- sure what it is doing, but it does appear to be the normal thing for
- Quantum's lps drives to do.
-
- Sean Harp
- University of Tennessee
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