Thread: hardrive noise
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Old 15-03-2004, 15:35   #8
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Re: hardrive noise

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Originally Posted by dragon
hmm i think it should take a 40gb drive and probably more its a p3 800mhz so although its fairly old its not that old

well i would do the drive firmware update app if i could find a floppy that worked ive just had it say diskette error on 4 floppys now

it does not wanna make the disk for that damn program
well i checked it its all up2 date on firmware apperntly some ibm drives do make a loud noise every now and again and this is considerd normall.

i emaled ibm to ask them whether its supposed to make this noise or not.

it does sound a bit like a noise they had recorded on their site for one of the other harddrives .

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs...es/dk23dan.wav

it does sound a bit like that execpt mine u can also hear the drive spinning
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